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Platform Overview

Welkin is the application platform built for software critical to society. With security and compliance at its core, it provides a stable and reliable cloud native foundation for running modern applications.

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One Platform. Built Different. On Purpose.

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A Complete
Cloud Native Platform

Welkin brings together everything you need to run modern critical applications in one cohesive platform. It includes Kubernetes, automation, observability, and security, whether operated by Elastisys or by your own team.

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Enterprise-Grade Security
at the Core

Designed for critical systems and sensitive data, Welkin delivers enterprise-grade security from the ground up. Encryption, access control, and automated updates keep workloads safe by default.

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Built-In Compliance and Digital Sovereignty

Welkin helps you meet strict regulatory requirements like NIS2, CRA, and ISO 27001. With built-in auditing, policy enforcement, and deployment only to the cloud of your choice, your workloads stay secure and compliant wherever they run.

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Automated Operations
and Effortless Scaling

Welkin automates platform operations, from provisioning and updates, to scaling and resilience. Your applications grow smoothly with demand, while the underlying infrastructure remains reliable and efficient.

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Consistent Across Clouds
and Environments

Run on any infrastructure with a unified experience. Welkin supports public and private clouds, on-prem environments, and air-gapped setups, providing consistent performance and keeping your application secure wherever it runs.

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Expert Engineering and
Continuous Improvement

Keeping a platform secure and up to date never stops. Our team makes sure Welkin keeps pace with every new cloud native standard so your platform stays safe, reliable, and ready for any audit.

Welkin’s Most Appreciated Features

Compliant by Design

Compliance should not slow you down. But for many organizations in regulated industries, it often does. It is consuming valuable time, resources, and constant attention.

Welkin removes that complexity. Built on ISO 27001 principles, the platform has security and compliance built into every layer, to ensure alignment with GDPR, NIS2, CRA, and other European and global standards. With deep knowledge in critical and highly regulated industries, such as healthcare, finance, and defense, we understand what’s at stake. With Welkin, compliance is not something you add, it is something you get by default.

The result is easy: a platform that stays compliant on its own, so you can focus on the work that matters.

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Secure From The Core

Modern applications are exposed to threats that evolve every day. As systems grow more distributed and interconnected, traditional perimeter-based defenses are no longer enough. Complex security configurations, inconsistent policies, and human error create vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit, especially when environments lack isolation or consistent enforcement.

With Welkin, security is built into the platform from the ground up, not bolted on afterward. Through isolation, micro-segmentation, and policy as code, every workload runs within clearly defined boundaries. Welkin’s opinionated security model ensures that best practices are applied automatically. This removes the guesswork and enforces consistent protection across all environments.

With security deeply integrated into every layer, your teams gain confidence and control without slowing down. Welkin keeps applications secure by default, auditable by design, and resilient in operation.

One Platform for All Applications

Different applications should not mean different setups, configurations, and processes. Yet in practice, they often do, making development more complex than it needs to be, creating friction and slowing teams down.

Welkin brings everything together. Whether your applications run in the public cloud, private cloud, on-prem, or in air-gapped environments, the platform unifies development and deployment into a single, consistent experience.

With everything unified in one place, your teams can build, deploy, and scale applications consistently across any environment.

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Simplifying Air-Gapped Operations

Running modern workloads in air-gapped environments, without network connection, is challenging. Strict security requirements, complex dependencies, and limited connectivity make it challenging to deploy, maintain, and scale these systems. What needs to be highly secure often ends up slow, fragile, and expensive to manage.

Welkin is purpose-built for highly critical industries. It enables teams to run applications seamlessly in fully disconnected environments, without sacrificing security, performance, or operational simplicity. It also makes your applications agnostic to migrations between air-gapped and networked Welkin environments.

This means your most critical workloads can operate securely and efficiently, even when fully offline, with the same stability and control you’d expect in connected environments.

Run AI Workloads Without Compromise

AI innovation moves fast, but scaling AI workloads often lags behind. Teams face scattered tooling, costly and underused GPU resources, and platforms that is not designed for large models, real-time processing, or experimentation. Add strict security and compliance requirements on top, and innovation goes even slower.

Welkin removes these obstacles. With GPU support, enterprise-grade security, and seamless integration with popular AI frameworks, it gives teams a trusted and scalable environment for training models, fine-tuning LLMs, and running production workloads. Security and compliance are embedded at every layer, ensuring data, models, and compute stay protected.

Your AI workloads will run side by side with everything else; secure, scalable, and ready to grow.

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Deep Visibility & Control

Modern applications generate massive amounts of data. From metrics and logs to performance signals and compliance records. But when that data lives in disconnected tools, teams lose visibility and control. Blind spots grow, costs become unpredictable, and decision-making slows down.

Welkin puts you back in control. Built-in observability gives teams real-time insight into system health, performance, and cost. Unified dashboards and alerts help you stay proactive and make informed decisions. All operational and security data is collected, structured, and surfaced through a single dashboard with fine-grained permissions.

With your data visible, protected, and actionable, teams gain the clarity and control to act fast. No blind spots. No guesswork.

Bring Your Own Dev Stack

Adopting new platforms should not mean disrupting the way your team works. Forcing developers to abandon the tools they trust only creates friction, slows innovation, and makes adoption harder than it needs to be.

Welkin adapts to your existing development stack instead of replacing it. Your teams can keep using the tools they know best (GitHub, GitLab, Jira, etc.) while Welkin takes over from testing through release, deployment, operations, and monitoring. Security is built in at every step through automated guardrails, ensuring only compliant workloads reach production.

This enables your developers to move fast with the stack they trust, while Welkin makes it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing, keeping security in check behind the scenes.

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Cross-Provider Backups and Restoration

No one can predict every outage, but you can be ready for them. Too often, organizations rely on manual recovery plans that are complex, slow, and unreliable when time matters the most.

Welkin changes that equation. By combining encrypted backups with cross-provider failover, it keeps operations stable through disruptions, restoring access and functionality in moments. Your teams stay focused, your customers stay connected, and your business stays online.

Because business continuity should not depend on a single provider.

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