Cloud Solutions as a Driver of Business Agility in 2025

11 August 2025 the experts of Intecracy Group delivered a client presentation “Cloud & AI 2025: Data Act, NIS2, FinOps and Multi-Cloud as an Operating Model”.

During the session, Intecracy Group experts outlined the impact of the EU Data Act (from 12.09.2025) and NIS2 on security standards and data portability, noted record public-cloud spending in 2025, and presented proven approaches — FinOps, CI/CD, managed services — that ensure cost control and faster releases.

Regulatory context: EU Data Act and NIS2

From 12 September 2025, key provisions of the EU Data Act apply: the framework for data access, sharing and portability, plus rules on switching between data-processing service providers. The European Commission is preparing non-binding standard contractual terms by 12 September 2025. A full ban on switching and egress fees takes effect on 12 January 2027 (with a transition period). In parallel, NIS2 obligations apply: Member States transposed the directive by 17.10.2024 and national rules started applying on 18.10.2024; by 2025 most countries already enforce these requirements.

Why cloud is the foundation of business agility

In 2025, public-cloud spending reached an all-time high (approximately over $700 billion per year), with market updates arriving almost weekly. In this reality, cloud becomes the base for rapid product launches, demand-driven adaptation and controlled IT spend.

Scale on demand and experiment faster

Cloud platforms let teams spin up test environments in minutes, validate hypotheses safely, collect analytics and quickly scale successful tracks. This shortens the “idea → data → decision” loop and directly accelerates time-to-market.

Anton Marrero: “The strategy ‘first buy hardware, then think about the product’ no longer works. The cloud lets you validate an idea in days, not months, and scale without procurement queues or infrastructure bottlenecks.”

Mykhailo Vihovskyi: “Speed is the currency of 2025. Whoever tests assumptions and changes course faster wins. Cloud removes barriers to experimentation and turns innovation into a managed routine rather than a one-off feat.”

Managed costs and a FinOps culture

Agility is impossible without cost transparency. FinOps helps plan budgets, set limits, compare services and avoid billing “surprises”. Core practices include resource tagging, automatic shutdown of idle capacity, reservations, and clear consumption analytics.

Security, compliance and trust

Cloud providers invest in cyber defense, compliance and service continuity at a level that is hard and costly to replicate in-house. Centralized logging, secrets management, encryption and regular audits increase trust from customers and partners. NIS2 further raises the bar for processes, risk management and reporting across many sectors.

Yurii Syvytskyi: “Cloud’s main advantage is not only speed but standardized security. Businesses get enterprise-grade tools without building their own SOC or maintaining an army of specialists.”

Hybrid/Multi-Cloud as risk insurance

Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures help distribute load, avoid vendor lock-in and meet data-localization requirements. This boosts resilience to outages, creates room to leverage price competition among providers and lets you pick best-of-breed services for specific tasks. The Data Act additionally eases switching between providers and gradually removes related fees.

Cloud + AI: a process accelerator

AI models, data-processing platforms and MLOps in the cloud lower the barrier to analytics and automation — from document classification and chat assistants to demand forecasting. Compute resources scale exactly as the business needs in the moment.

Anton Marrero: “AI without cloud is costlier, slower and less scalable. Cloud turns AI into a practical tool, not a slide-deck demo.”

Operational agility and time-to-market

Containers, managed databases and serverless reduce technical debt and speed up releases. Automated CI/CD pipelines, an Infrastructure as Code approach and managed services turn infrastructure into code, where changes are transparent and reproducible.

Mykhailo Vihovskyi: “An agile business thinks in ‘services’, not ‘servers’. You buy outcomes — availability, performance, security — and pay precisely for the level you need right now.”

What to do today

• Identify priority processes for migration and size quick wins.
• Implement FinOps: resource tagging, budget alerts, policies for shutting down idle workloads.
• Build a security baseline: identity management, encryption, backups, event logs.
• Standardize releases via CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Launch quick AI pilots: customer support, document analysis, demand forecasting.

Bottom line: in 2025 the cloud is not “just another data center” but an operating model that accelerates decisions, reduces risk and gives businesses room to maneuver amid uncertainty.

What Intecracy Group companies offer in the cloud context

• Systems integration and cloud migrations: design of hybrid/multi-cloud architectures, moving critical systems, integrating hardware and software platforms.
• ECM/BPM solutions and business apps: development and rollout of electronic document management and process-automation systems (incl. proprietary technologies) optimized for cloud environments.
• Cybersecurity and compliance: ISMS setup, encryption, audit and monitoring, guidance on NIS2 compliance and Data Act readiness (portability/sharing, contractual aspects).
• Managed services and IT outsourcing: IT infrastructure support, service desk, SRE/DevOps practices, service continuity.
• FinOps enablement: cost accounting and allocation methods, budgeting policies, scenario-based total cost in multi-cloud.