How do the requirements differ between these industries?
The underlying engineering is similar, but the constraint that dominates each sector is different. Fintech is shaped by payment and security standards and by what an auditor will want to see. SaaS is shaped by how quickly you can ship safely and how you separate customers. E-commerce is shaped by traffic spikes and the cost of downtime during them. Healthcare is shaped by rules on handling patient data.
Knowing which constraint dominates tells you where to spend first. Spending on high availability before access control is a common mistake in regulated sectors, and spending on compliance paperwork before deployment automation is a common mistake in fast-moving product companies.
| Sector | Dominant concern | Typical first technical focus |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | Security standards and audit evidence | Access control, logging, change control, network segmentation |
| SaaS | Release speed and customer isolation | CI/CD, environments, tenancy model, scaling |
| E-commerce | Peak load and availability | Autoscaling, caching, load testing, monitoring and alerting |
| Healthcare | Protection of patient data | Encryption, audit logging, backup and recovery, data location |
Which industry page should I read?
Read the page for the sector whose rules you must satisfy. If you sit across two, for example a SaaS product that handles payments or health records, read both. The SaaS page covers the delivery and tenancy side, and the fintech or healthcare page covers the controls your customers or regulators will ask about.
If your sector is not listed, the engineering approach still applies. Our compliance pages cover SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness, GDPR and EU data residency, NIS2 technical controls and DORA ICT third party risk, which cut across industries.
What does compliance-aware infrastructure actually mean?
It means the technical controls that frameworks typically ask for are built into the platform and are provable. Examples include least-privilege access, encryption at rest and in transit, centralised and tamper-resistant logs, tested backups, and a change process in which every infrastructure change is reviewed and recorded in version control.
Infrastructure as code helps here because the configuration itself becomes evidence. It does not make an organisation compliant on its own. Frameworks also cover policies, people and process, and certification or attestation is carried out by the relevant auditor or assessor, not by an engineering supplier.
- Identity: single sign-on, role-based access, short-lived credentials.
- Data: encryption, key management, backup and restore testing.
- Visibility: audit logs, alerting, retention that matches your obligations.
- Change: pull requests, approvals, and pipelines that leave a record.
What does a typical engagement look like?
Most engagements start with an assessment of what you run today, followed by a prioritised roadmap, implementation of the agreed items, and then either handover or ongoing operations. The how we work pages describe each stage. Scope is agreed in writing before work starts, a named senior engineer is responsible for the work, and everything is delivered in your own cloud accounts and repositories.
For regulated sectors the assessment stage matters most, because it exposes the gaps between what you have and what you will be asked to demonstrate. Our audit and compliance preparation page describes how that preparation is approached.
How do industry and location interact?
Sector rules and regional rules stack. A healthcare provider in the UK faces different data protection obligations from one in the United States, and a payments company in the EU has extra operational resilience expectations. Where your data is stored, and which cloud region it sits in, is often a decision that both sets of rules influence.
Our locations pages set out the cloud regions and regulatory context for each market we work in. Read the industry page for what to build and the location page for where and under which law.
Frequently asked questions
Do you certify our environment for PCI DSS, HIPAA or SOC 2?
Can one platform serve both a SaaS product and regulated data?
What if my industry is not listed?
Do I need to be on AWS or Azure?
Industries we serve
We understand that fintech infrastructure is not the same as SaaS infrastructure. Every industry has specific compliance, architecture, and reliability requirements, and we build around them.
Fintech
PCI-DSS and SOC 2 readiness, data pipelines for fraud detection, and high-availability payment systems.
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Multi-tenancy, auto-scaling, CI/CD velocity, and product metrics pipelines.
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Peak traffic handling (Black Friday), CDN, reliability targets, and checkout performance.
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HIPAA-aligned technical controls, audit logging, PHI access controls, and disaster recovery.
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