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This blog was released off the back of our white paper, The Cost of Cloud 2025 - India Edition. Research was conducted with over 600 Indian tech professionals to create a comprehensive analysis of the Indian cloud market.

The phrase "cloud first" dominated IT strategy for the better part of a decade. It was gospel, practically unchallengeable, and for a lot of organizations, it was the right call. But something shifted between 2024 and 2026, and it shifted fast. Bills stopped being defensible. Vendor pricing imploded. Sovereignty stopped being a compliance checkbox and became a procurement requirement.

Financial services in the UK operates under one of the most demanding regulatory frameworks in the world. The FCA and PRA between them set expectations for operational resilience, outsourcing, data governance, and concentration risk that shape every infrastructure decision a regulated firm makes. Cloud adoption in the sector has happened, but it's happened under regulatory scrutiny that's grown steadily more pointed over the last several years.