DORA One Year In: A Practical Guide for Cloud Teams Serving Financial Services

DORA has applied since January 2025. The shock-of-the-new is over. What remains is the engineering work: contract clauses that bite, exit strategies that have to actually run, and resilience testing that does not stop at a tabletop. Here is how cloud teams should be implementing DORA in 2026.

DORA in three paragraphs

What Article 28 actually demands of cloud providers

Mapping the five pillars to cloud architecture

The DORA and NIS2 overlap, and how to avoid running two programmes

Common mistakes one year in

Where to go from here