Overview
The legal entity Cloudar NV was registered on 16 October 2014. Co-founders and managing partners are Bart Van Hecke and Senne Vaeyens. The company is part of Cronos Groep. Services cover AWS professional services, migration, architecture design, DevOps, 24/7 managed services and managed applications, FinOps and reselling, cloud-native development, Microsoft workloads on AWS, public sector solutions and generative AI on AWS. Customers with published case studies include VRT, Studio Brussel, DPG Media, VDAB, Doccle, Mazda, Barco, Mediahuis, Coop and RGF Staffing. Cloudar has held ISO/IEC 27001 certification since 2018 and is certified to the 2022 version of the standard. In November 2018 it became the first AWS Premier Consulting Partner headquartered in Belgium, after obtaining the AWS DevOps and Government competencies earlier that year. It won the APN Benelux Advanced Partner Business Award in 2018, the AWSome Award Benelux in 2019 and APN Consulting Partner of the Year 2020 for Benelux, when it reported annual revenue above €10 million. Later competencies include Security (September 2023), Digital Sovereignty (December 2024) and SMB (June 2025). In March 2025 the company opened Cloudar BV in Utrecht, led by managing partner Steyn Huizinga. In March 2026 Cloudar became the first local Benelux partner with Anthropic Authorized Reseller status, giving customers access to Claude models through Amazon Bedrock.
Stated facts & numbers
- Founded: 2014 (Cloudar NV registered 16 October 2014)
- Headquarters: Kontich (Antwerp), Belgium; second office in Utrecht, Netherlands
- Founders: Bart Van Hecke, Senne Vaeyens (Co-Founders and Managing Partners)
- Group: Cronos Groep
- Employees: 11-50 (56 listed)
- Revenue: Over €10 million (2020)
- Partner status: AWS Premier Consulting Partner since November 2018; Anthropic Authorized Reseller since March 2026
- Certification: ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- Customers: VRT, DPG Media, VDAB, Doccle, Mazda, Barco, Mediahuis, Coop, RGF Staffing
- Enterprise number: 0564.763.890
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In the news
- Nobody ever got fired for choosing Kubernetes. That's not an argument. That's fear dressed up as a decision. Indra van Davelaar breaks down serverless vs. containers vs. K8s and why everyone knows it is the worst reason to pick your stack.
- You made our life easier.... That's it. That's the whole review. Youri van den Berg breaks down why fewer sleepless nights beats any five-star testimonial.
- Flying back from AWS Madrid. Nice to had the ability to show one of our customers the AWS office and great to have seen again lot of familiair faces. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloudar
- Today Arjan Timmers an I visited #DataExpo and #Cybersec. Always great to reconnect with familiar faces. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloudar
- Honestly? These might be the best 11 minutes you spend all year if you're still running vSphere. Broadcom just pulled the plug without a warning: every VDDK download link on Broadcom's site quietly died. No deprecation notice, no grace period, just a 404... right where a load-bearing piece of the entire VMware-exit ecosystem used to live. And no VDDK means no agentless migration, no agentless backup. The good news: you're not stuck. There are still real routes from vSphere to AWS that skip Broadcom's now-empty download tree
- The classic mistake in every cloud migration conversation? Opening with a spreadsheet. Tom Geeroms has seen it countless times and he'll tell you straight: the moment you reduce a cloud move to a line-item comparison against your current on-prem setup, you've already lost the plot. The real question is what you can do tomorrow that you simply couldn't do yesterday. How fast can you test a new idea, hit a wall, learn something, and go again? That cycle of rapid innovation (fail fast, learn faster) is where the true return on cloud
- Jeroen Jacobs has worked on a lot of AWS projects. Ask him what still gets him genuinely excited and the answer is IoT. There's something about bridging the physical world with the cloud that hits differently. Sensors, real-world data, machines responding in real time. With ConDoor Door Solutions, Cloudar took that one step further: not just reading sensor data and making it smart, but going in the opposite direction entirely, using the AWS platform to actively control machines in the field.
- Another AI post? Guilty as charged. But here’s the reality: AI is literally all anyone is talking about right now. Both inside our team and across every client call Steyn Huizinga is on. We’re not just riding the hype, we’re actively shaping how it’s used.
Alumni 2 went on to found or lead
Jeroen JacobsCommercial Director→Founder @ Wolqq.com at Wolqq.com
Vincent Van Der KussenCloud Engineer→Co-Founder at Autops
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