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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- Too many projects start with a preconceived idea that leads down the wrong path. Before writing a single line of code, you need crystal-clear focus. Andrès Koetsier breaks down how we kick things off with a new client: cutting through the noise, figuring out the real bottlenecks and locking in the right architecture from day one.
- Viva Las Vegas! When the biggest AWS event of the year rolls around, you don't just stay home. And we will once again be out in full force at AWS re:Invent to soak up the latest tech, innovations and deep architectural insights. Jeroen Jacobs Tom De Blende ☁️ Ben Bridts Tom Geeroms Bart Van Hecke are crossing the ocean once more and they are bringing the local energy straight to the desert. Are you heading to Vegas too? Let us know, because we’d love to buy you a drink and catch up!
- Last night, Cloudar and Ingram Micro hosted the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Executive Dinner at Slot Zuylen in Gemeente Utrecht. A full house: 32 attendees at the table and even a waiting list. A nice contrast too. In a 13th-century castle, we talked about the most cutting-edge Agentic AI technology of our time. We had two strong talks: #AI specialist Amauri Sousa from AWS walked us through best practice about selecting the right LLM for your use case and showed what agentic AI can already do today, not tomorrow. Sidney Borrego y
- Like with the Q2 results, I got up a bit earlier this morning and watched the Amazon Q3-26 earnings call over breakfast. Exciting times :-P I always try to search for the messages between the lines given by Andy Jassy and Brian Olsavsky in the earnings call. Not focussed from an investor perspective but as Cloudar as an AWS partner. Again in Q3, 7 interesting takeaways I found. read my blog on Medium
- In the enterprise tech landscape, complex multi-layered supply chains and endless waiting times can completely kill the momentum. You don’t need bureaucracy, but answers, speed and rock-solid execution. Jeroen van der Leer explains why the close collaboration between Cloudar, Ingram Micro and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a massive game-changer for end customers. And because we go 100% for AWS, the communication lines through the entire channel become razor-thin.
- Let’s drop the romanticizing. When an AI agent escapes its test environment and compromises external servers, it’s not an autonomous entity with a free will. It’s software built, configured, and unleashed by humans. And for worms, clear rules have existed for decades. Tom De Blende ☁️ wrote a column in Trends DataNews about why building advanced frontier models comes with massive responsibility. As proud partners working with cutting-edge tech, we believe true innovation goes hand-in-hand with robust containment, transparency and
- ‘Een op hol geslagen AI-agent is gewoon een worm die kan nadenken’Een AI-agent is nog altijd een stuk software, deels geschreven en deels getraind. Het is software die een bedrijf heeft gebouwd, geconfigureerd en aangezet. Dat maakt dit kort door de bocht een worm. En voor wormen gelden al lang duidelijke regels, zo schrijft Tom De Blende, managing partner bij Cloudar.
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DataNews · 27 Oct 2026
- Claude Code & Kiro: hands-on at Cronos Nederland / Cloudar #Utrecht Happy to announce on November 11th, with the wider De Cronos Groep community a hands-on workshop on Anthropic Claude Code on Amazon Web Services (AWS) #Bedrock and #Kiro. The event will be hosted at the Cloudar Netherlands / Cronos Nederland Utrecht office. The talks will be given by Jagdeep Singh and Ajeet Tewari, two highly valued and well known Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architects I always appreciate to work with. After the talks there are two hours
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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