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Azure Infrastructure for Businesses in the UK for Finance & Banking
Scalable, resilient Azure infrastructure purpose-built for financial services.
Architected for Purpose
Every Azure environment we build is designed around your specific workloads, performance requirements, and compliance obligations.
Secure by Design
Network segmentation, identity management, encryption, and monitoring are built into the foundation — not bolted on afterwards.
Scalable & Efficient
Infrastructure that grows with your business using autoscaling, reserved capacity, and right-sized resources from the outset.
Financial Services require cloud infrastructure that can handle transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings securely and at scale. Poorly designed Azure environments lead to performance bottlenecks, unexpected costs, and FCA, PRA, and MiFID II compliance failures. Purpose-built infrastructure ensures your financial services firm has the compute, storage, and networking foundations to thrive.
Cloudswitched designs and deploys Azure infrastructure solutions for UK financial services. We architect Azure environments around your Bloomberg, Reuters, and core banking platforms requirements, with right-sized virtual machines, secure networking, and storage optimised for transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings. Every deployment follows FCA, PRA, and MiFID II best practices and includes comprehensive documentation.
How it works for Finance businesses
A clear, structured process from consultation to ongoing support.
1
Requirements Gathering
We work with your technical and business stakeholders to understand workload characteristics, compliance requirements, growth projections, and integration needs before designing anything.
2
Landing Zone Architecture
We design a structured Azure landing zone with management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, networking, and identity aligned to Microsoft best practices and your governance model.
3
Infrastructure as Code
All infrastructure is deployed using code templates, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and the ability to rebuild or replicate environments rapidly.
Azure Infrastructure for Businesses in the UK for Finance
Right-Sized Compute
Virtual machines precisely configured for Bloomberg, Reuters, and core banking platforms workloads, delivering optimal performance for transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings processing without overspending on unused capacity.
Secure Networking
Azure Virtual Networks, NSGs, and private endpoints protect transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings in transit and at rest, meeting FCA, PRA, and MiFID II network security requirements.
High-Availability Design
Availability sets and zones ensure your financial services firm applications remain accessible even during Azure platform maintenance or regional incidents.
Scalable Storage
Azure storage solutions configured for transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings, with appropriate redundancy, access tiers, and lifecycle policies to balance cost and performance.
Our Azure Infrastructure Service Includes
Azure landing zone design aligned to Well-Architected Framework
Network architecture with VNets, subnets, and security groups
Identity and access management with Entra ID integration
Infrastructure as Code deployment for repeatability
Monitoring, logging, and alerting configuration
Documentation and handover to your operations team
Why Finance businesses choose us
Certified Azure infrastructure architects who understand financial services firm workload requirements
Infrastructure-as-code deployments ensuring consistent, repeatable, and auditable environments
Right-sizing expertise that balances performance needs of Bloomberg, Reuters, and core banking platforms with cost efficiency
FCA, PRA, and MiFID II compliant architecture templates designed specifically for UK financial services
UK data centre residency options ensuring transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings remains within British jurisdiction
Comprehensive documentation including network diagrams, security policies, and runbooks
Frequently Asked Questions
Most financial services require virtual machines for Bloomberg, Reuters, and core banking platforms, Azure networking for secure connectivity, blob or file storage for transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings, and identity services. We right-size every component to match your financial services firm's actual requirements.
We design infrastructure using FCA, PRA, and MiFID II compliant templates, enforce policies through Azure Policy, and document all configurations for audit purposes. Regular reviews ensure continued compliance as both Azure and FCA, PRA, and MiFID II requirements evolve.
Azure is built for scalability. We design auto-scaling rules for compute resources and elastic storage that grows with your transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings volumes, ensuring your financial services firm never outgrows its infrastructure.
We deploy to UK Azure regions (UK South and UK West) by default, ensuring transaction records, client portfolios, and regulatory filings remains within British jurisdiction. This satisfies FCA, PRA, and MiFID II data residency requirements and provides low-latency access for your financial services firm staff.
We use reserved instances, spot VMs where appropriate, and continuous right-sizing to minimise costs. Monthly reviews identify savings opportunities, and we provide clear cost breakdowns so your financial services firm finance team understands exactly where budget is allocated.
Free On Boarding worth up to £2,000!
Limited time offer - valid until 31/05/2026
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