Cloud Migration Warsaw Mordor — multi-cloud

Data residency

No general statutory requirement to store data in Poland; EU/EEA rules apply. Supervised financial entities must follow the UKNF communication of 23 January 2020 on processing information in public or hybrid cloud, which requires risk classification, contractual controls and notification to the regulator at least 14 days before deploying cloud infrastructure for legally protected information.

What shapes cloud procurement here

Poland has one of the largest developer talent pools in the EU, so a cloud or DevOps proposal is almost always benchmarked against hiring in-house or engaging local contractors at domestic rates. In-country residency is achievable on Azure Poland Central and Google Cloud europe-central2, both in Warsaw; AWS has no Polish region and serves the market from Frankfurt plus a Warsaw Local Zone, which matters for buyers with an AWS-standardised estate and a residency clause. Financial-sector procurement runs through the UKNF cloud communication of 23 January 2020, including advance regulator notification and constraints on the outsourcing chain, and public tenders follow Prawo zamówień publicznych and are conducted in Polish. Billing sits in PLN against mostly USD/EUR-denominated cloud spend, and mandatory KSeF structured e-invoicing phased in during 2026, so invoicing and billing integration is a live implementation topic for suppliers contracting locally.

Sector regulators