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Overview
Governance and Automation
Without Heavy Lifting

Deliver secure, compliant infrastructure anywhere with reusable blueprints and built-in governance.

Diagram showing Fractal Cloud governance and automation with reusable infrastructure components
REALITY CHECK
Expectations
vs Reality

Manual reviews, scattered tools, and platform silos block safe delivery at scale.

Expectations

  • "We’ll avoid cloud lock-in"
  • "We’ll build secure and compliant systems from the start"
  • "We’ll ship faster"
  • "We’ll manage cloud cost efficiently"
  • "We’ll reduce manual work with automation"

Reality

  • Architecture choices limit future portability.
  • Compliance slows every release.
  • Developers can wait weeks for approval.
  • Duplicated effort and tools.
  • Complex customer sripts. High maintenance costs.
Our Solution
Fractal Cloud.
How It Works.

Reusable infrastructure, policy by design, and full automation: managed end to end, from definition to operations.

Visual representation of a Fractal template used to define governed cloud infrastructure

Define the Fractal

Reusable, governed templates called Fractals are built using a dedicated SDK. Each one encodes cloud architecture, policies, and operations in a portable, versioned unit.

Example of deploying a Fractal using the Fractal Cloud SDK without infrastructure scripts

Deploy the Fractal

Infrastructure is deployed by referencing a Fractal directly from the SDK. No IaC scripts or templates, just API-driven composition in Java (and C# soon).

Flow showing how a Fractal is instantiated into a governed live cloud system

From a Fractal to a Live System

When a Fractal is instantiated on a cloud provider, it generates a Live System, a governed, traceable infrastructure environment ready to run workloads.

Automated operations including monitoring, drift detection, and lifecycle management in Fractal Cloud

Operations Run Automatically

Monitoring, drift detection, updates, and operational tasks are orchestrated and enforced by the Fractal Automation Engine, without the need to maintain custom IaC pipelines or scripts.

Governance and access control enforced centrally in Fractal Cloud

Governance Stays in Control

Access, updates, and extensions are controlled through the Fractal interface. Guardrails stay intact, even as teams scale deployments independently.

Key Differentiators
What Makes
Fractal Cloud Different

Eliminate cloud complexity with pre-approved, production-ready infrastructure. Focus on building your application while Fractal Cloud handles the underlying platform.

True multi cloud portability across providers

True Multi-Cloud Portability

Define infrastructure once and deploy it across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, on-prem, and integrable with virtually any regional or specialized provider, with no rewrites or rework.

Code native platform engineering experience

Code-Native Platform Experience

Developers define infrastructure using general-purpose languages (Java, soon C#), no DSLs, no templates, no external interpreters.

Built in governance and compliance controls in Fractal Cloud

Built-In Governance and Compliance

Security, policies, and operational standards are embedded by design, not layered afterward, ensuring every environment is compliant from day one.

Automated infrastructure lifecycle management

Automated Lifecycle Management

Infrastructure is continuously monitored, validated, and updated. Configuration drift is detected and reconciled automatically, unlike traditional IaC tools, which only detect drift during planned runs and require manual correction.