Cloud infrastructure for banking, financial services and insurance
Run lending, payments and customer systems with data kept in India, every network isolated and every change recorded, on a platform that is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited.
In short
What does Neon Cloud offer banks, NBFCs and fintechs?
Neon Cloud runs financial workloads on infrastructure in India: virtual machines and managed Kubernetes inside private networks, a dedicated firewall for each environment, next-generation antivirus, and security operations as a service (SOCaaS) that collects and watches your logs. Managed services add patching, restore tests, vulnerability scans and compliance evidence reports, so your team has what auditors ask for. Whether a setup meets a particular regulation is for your compliance team to decide; we support the due diligence.
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- Best for
- NBFCs, fintechs, payment companies, brokers, cooperative and small finance banks, insurers and their technology partners.
- Typical setup
- A VPC for each system, a dedicated firewall, encrypted volumes, nightly backups and 24x7 security monitoring.
- Where your data lives
- In India, in our Delhi NCR region. Backups stay in India too.
- How it's billed
- In rupees, a fixed monthly price per resource, excluding GST.
- Security assurance
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited.
- Support and uptime
- 24/7 support and a 99.95% uptime SLA on the Essential and Premium plans (99.9% on Starter).
The challenge
What do regulated financial firms need from a cloud?
Performance matters, but the questions that decide a provider come from regulators and auditors.
Data that stays in India
Regulators expect financial data to be kept in India: RBI's 2018 directive on storing payment system data and SEBI's 2023 cloud framework both say so.
Isolation and access control
Core systems, customer channels and partner integrations belong on separate networks, with access limited by role and every sign-in recorded.
Evidence for auditors
Internal and statutory auditors want proof: access reviews, patch records, backup restore tests and vulnerability scans.
Incident reporting on a deadline
CERT-In's 2022 directions require cyber incidents to be reported within six hours and logs to be kept for 180 days in India.
How Neon Cloud fits
Which Neon Cloud services fit financial workloads?
Controls at every layer, from the network edge to the evidence report.
Isolated private networks
A VPC for each system with private subnets and security groups, a redundant virtual router option, and site-to-site VPNs to branches and partners.
Dedicated firewall
A firewall instance of your own in three sizes, with intrusion prevention, application control, web filtering and threat intelligence.
Security operations (SOCaaS)
Central log collection kept for 180 days, correlation rules and alerting. The Enterprise tier adds 24x7 monitoring, advanced threat detection and incident handling.
Managed services
Neon RMM patches and monitors your VMs. The Enterprise tier adds vulnerability scans, hardening checks, change approvals and compliance evidence reports.
Backups and snapshots
Daily or weekly VM and volume backups, an image- and file-level backup agent, and snapshots before every change, all kept in India.
Compute and Kubernetes
Memory-optimized VMs for core and analytics workloads, Windows Server and SQL Server licences, and managed Kubernetes for digital channels.
Reference architecture
What does a typical BFSI setup look like?
Traffic passes a dedicated firewall into separate networks for customer channels and core systems, with logs flowing to security monitoring and backups kept in India.
Due diligence
We answer your security questionnaire and share our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate and SOC 2 Type II report under NDA.
Design
Our engineers design networks, firewalls, backups and monitoring around your risk assessment and your auditors' checklist.
Migrate
Systems move in planned windows, the least critical first, each with a rollback plan.
Operate and evidence
Patching, monitoring and restore tests run on a schedule, and evidence reports are ready for your next audit.
Security and compliance
What do regulators expect, and how does Neon Cloud help?
Financial regulators expect data in India, strong controls and evidence. Here is what the platform gives your compliance team.
- Data and backups stay in India, in line with RBI's directive on storing payment system data and the data-localisation expectations in SEBI's cloud framework.
- SOCaaS collects your logs centrally and keeps them for 180 days, the period CERT-In's directions require, so you can investigate and report an incident within the six-hour window.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited, with the certificate and report available under NDA for your vendor risk assessment.
- Access by role with multi-factor sign-in, and an audit log of every change.
- Compliance evidence reports, change approvals and half-yearly disaster-recovery drill support with Neon RMM Enterprise.
- A data processing agreement is available on request.
Regulated entities stay responsible for their own compliance, including outsourcing and IT governance rules such as RBI's 2023 Master Direction on outsourcing of IT services. We support your due diligence and audits; your compliance team decides whether a setup meets a specific requirement.
Use cases
What do financial firms run on Neon Cloud?
Customer-facing channels, core processing and the systems around them.
Loan origination and management
Lending platforms for NBFCs and fintechs, with customer documents in object storage and databases on encrypted volumes.
Payment APIs and gateways
Payment services on Kubernetes behind a dedicated firewall, with payment data kept in India.
Customer portals and apps
Net banking, broking and policy portals behind a load balancer and firewall.
Analytics and risk models
Credit scoring, fraud checks and regulatory reporting on memory-optimized VMs, or on cloud GPUs quoted on request.
A secondary environment
A recovery environment for systems in your own data centre, connected over a site-to-site VPN and tested in drills.
Back-office systems
Accounting, HR and document systems on Windows Server, with SQL Server licences billed monthly.
Trusted by businesses that run on Neon Cloud
- Yes. Your data, including backups, stays in India unless you move it. Neon Cloud runs in a data centre colocated in a Tier III facility in Delhi NCR (Noida).
- Regulators don't certify cloud providers directly; regulated entities assess their providers under their own outsourcing and cloud-adoption rules. Neon Cloud supports that assessment with its ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate, its SOC 2 Type II report, answers to your security questionnaire and a data processing agreement.
- Neon Cloud is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited. The certificate and the report are shared under NDA: email security@neoncloud.com or talk to an expert.
- Yes, as SOCaaS in three tiers. Essential covers log collection, basic monitoring and standard alerting; Advanced adds correlation rules, enhanced alerting and incident visibility; Enterprise adds 24x7 monitoring, advanced threat detection, prioritised alerts and proactive incident handling. Every tier keeps collected logs for 180 days, and SOCaaS is quoted for your environment.
- Neon RMM patches operating systems in an agreed window. The Advanced tier adds a snapshot before each patch with rollback; the Enterprise tier adds change management with an approval workflow, CIS-aligned hardening checks and monthly vulnerability scans.
- Compute, storage and networking have fixed monthly prices in rupees on the pricing page, and customers typically pay 30–40% less than on the hyperscalers. Firewalls are priced per instance; SOCaaS and managed services are quoted for your environment.
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Bring your auditor's checklist
Tell us which systems you want to move and what your auditors ask for. We'll design the setup and share our certificate and report under NDA.