--- title: "Artifact management built for distributed engineering teams at scale | Cloudsmith for Adyen" description: "Adyen's Platform Excellence team manages artifact infrastructure for hundreds of engineers across Amsterdam and the US. Cloudsmith can replace JFrog on-prem with global edge delivery, and zero infrastructure overhead." canonical_url: "https://cloudsmith.com/loves/adyen" last_updated: "2026-06-24T08:35:14Z" --- # Artifact management built for distributed engineering teams at scale | Cloudsmith for Adyen Cloudsmith + Adyen ## Build payments infrastructure. Not artifact infrastructure. **Cloudsmith handles the artifact infrastructure so Adyen's platform team doesn't have to.** Distributed by default. No registry on the on-call rotation. [Talk to the team](/book-a-demo) ## The architecture mismatch Self-hosted artifact management works well until the engineering organization outgrows it. At Adyen's scale with distributed teams comprising hundreds of engineers across two continents, structural limits become operational problems that slow down development and distribution. Artifact requests route to a single origin. Latency compounds by geography. Platform teams inherit uptime responsibility for infrastructure that was never their core job. None of that is a configuration problem. It's what self-hosted architecture does at scale. Cloudsmith is designed differently. | JFrog on-prem today | With Cloudsmith | | --- | --- | | US engineers pull artifacts from a registry sitting in Amsterdam. Every request crosses the Atlantic - build times pay for the geography. | Artifacts are served from a node close to the requesting engineer. US engineers resolve from a US node. Amsterdam engineers resolve from a local node. The architecture reduces cross-continental latency without any routing policy to configure. | | Registry uptime depends on the health of your on-prem instance. Disk fills up. VMs go down. Upgrades break pipelines. The Adyen team loses time maintaining and patching servers that could be spent on development. | Cloudsmith is a managed service. When there's an incident, Cloudsmith's team responds, not Adyen's. No upgrade windows owned by the platform team. No on-call rotation for a registry. The infrastructure overhead moves off your engineers entirely. | | Scaling JFrog means provisioning hardware, adjusting JVM heap, planning capacity ahead of demand. Adyen's platform team owns the infrastructure their tooling runs on. | Cloudsmith scales invisibly. Storage, bandwidth, and throughput expand automatically as your organization's requirements grow. Your platform team delivers tooling - not infrastructure. | | Migration risk keeps teams on tooling they've outgrown. The cost of change feels higher than the cost of friction. | Cloudsmith has a tested migration path from JFrog Artifactory and other on-prem solutions - repository structure mapping, metadata preservation, phased rollout, supported end-to-end, and an onboarding team to make it happen. Other teams have done it. We'll support yours. | ## Customers love Cloudsmith [Read reviews on G2](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudsmith/reviews) ## Global by default. Not an afterthought. A self-hosted registry has one location. Distributed teams get unequal service from it - and that gap grows as your organization scales. The solution is not smarter routing or additional nodes you manage yourself. It is an architecture built from day zero to serve the nearest location. When an engineer in San Francisco runs a build, they pull from a US node. When a team in Amsterdam does the same, they pull from a European node. There is no replication job to monitor, and no geography that consistently gets a slower experience. - 600+ global edge points of presence - Artifacts served from nearby edge nodes, cutting cross-continental latency - Multi-region redundancy with automatic traffic failover - Consistent performance for teams in Amsterdam and the US [Learn about global artifact delivery](/product/global-software-distribution) ## High availability that doesn't require a maintenance plan. Self-hosted Artifactory goes down when the VM does. Or when the upgrade goes sideways. Or when disk fills up at 2am on a Friday before a release. At Adyen's pace, registry downtime is pipeline downtime - and pipeline downtime is not abstract cost. Cloudsmith is a managed service. When something goes wrong, Cloudsmith's team responds - not Adyen's. No customer-owned maintenance windows. No on-call rotation for a registry. No failover procedure to rehearse. The operational burden moves off your engineers entirely. - Multi-region redundancy with no single point of failure - Zero-maintenance upgrades - we update, your pipelines keep running - No upgrade risk to manage, no instance health to monitor [See how Cloudsmith handles reliability](/product/cloud-native-artifact-management) For platform excellence teams ## Running the registry is not the job Your Platform Excellence team exists to raise the productivity and reliability bar for hundreds of engineers - not to operate the infrastructure that tooling runs on. Cloudsmith removes that category of work entirely, letting them focus on the work that matters. ### Zero maintenance overhead No JVM heap to tune. No disk quotas to monitor. No licensing conversations to manage. Cloudsmith is fully managed SaaS — it scales automatically as your artifact volume grows, with no provisioning required from your team. ### Self-service for development teams Cloudsmith's API, Terraform provider, and OIDC-native auth make it straightforward to build golden paths that let teams provision repositories and manage access without raising a ticket. Your platform team sets the guardrails; developers move inside them independently. ### Full observability out of the box Client logs, audit trails, and package-level analytics give your platform and security teams visibility into every artifact request across the organization. Export to Datadog or S3 for deeper analysis. No additional tooling required. Supply chain security ## Your artifact registry is a security control, not just a storage layer Adyen operates in a regulated environment where the integrity of every software artifact matters. Cloudsmith gives your security and platform teams the controls to enforce that integrity automatically - across every format, every pipeline, every team. [Explore supply chain security](/product/software-supply-chain-security) ### Vulnerability scanning on every artifact Every package pushed to Cloudsmith is scanned for CVEs and malware before it can be consumed. Policy as code makes it easy to define and enforce rules that meet your security standards. Cloudsmith regularly rescans your repositories against up-to-date vulnerability databases, so a newly disclosed CVE is surfaced automatically, not on your next manual sweep. ### Policy enforcement with OPA Rego Enterprise Policy Manager lets your security team define rules as code using OPA Rego - version-controlled, reviewable, and applied consistently across every repository. Vulnerabilities above a defined severity threshold are quarantined automatically. License compliance violations are caught before they reach your codebase. No per-team configuration. No exceptions by default. ### Full audit trail across every artifact event Every push, pull, policy trigger, and configuration change is logged with full context - who, what, when, from where. Client logs and audit trails export to Azure or S3 for your security team's analysis workflows. Cloudsmith offers the traceability that compliance and incident response require. ### Package signing and SBOM generation Artifacts are signed using GPG and PGP standards, giving every consumer confidence in provenance and integrity. SBOM generation across your pipelines gives your security team a live inventory of every dependency in production - not just a snapshot taken at build time Migrating from JFrog ## The migration is manageable. We've done it before. Every engineering team considering a move off JFrog has the same question: what does the migration actually look like? Cloudsmith has a structured, supported path. Other teams — including JFrog customers managing complex, multi-format estates — have run it without downtime. Tooling handles the heavy lifting. [See our JFrog migration resources](/switch/jfrog-artifactory) ### Repository structure mapping Cloudsmith's Migration Toolkit maps your existing Artifactory repository structure to Cloudsmith automatically - format by format, with metadata preserved. ### Phased artifact transfer Artifacts migrate in phases, so your pipelines continue pulling from JFrog until each repository is fully cut over. No big-bang migration, no downtime window. ### Endpoint and credential migration CI/CD environment variables and configuration files point to new Cloudsmith endpoints. Upstream proxying means open-source dependencies resolve through Cloudsmith from day one. ### End-to-end migration support Cloudsmith's dedicated onboarding team works with you through every stage. This is not self-serve documentation. It's a supported migration with named contacts, regular check-ins and agreed deadlines. [Read the full case study](/customers/cloudsmith-and-thrivent) ## See what Cloudsmith looks like in Adyen's environment Artifact management built for distributed engineering at scale. The infrastructure layer is handled - your platform team focuses on what matters. Talk to our team and we'll show you exactly how it works for an organization like yours. [Talk to the team](/company/contact-sales) [Explore migration from JFrog](/switch/jfrog-artifactory)