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Follow this guidance if you’re a civil servant or government contractor to use cloud tools safely.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
Adapt your technology operations, finance models and cost optimisation techniques to get the most out of the public cloud.
Use the cloud first policy by evaluating cloud computing before other options.
This guidance outlines how to make informed choices about your organisation’s reliance on cloud technologies.
Find out about the long-term effects some people can have after having COVID-19.
The government introduced a ‘Cloud First’ policy in 2013 for all technology decisions.
These resources are for anyone who works in the public sector and wants to use cloud platforms in their organisation.
Suppliers of science and technology research can sign up to R-Cloud to access opportunities from across the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
This guidance outlines how to create and implement a cloud strategy, and when to consider a single, hybrid or multi-cloud solution.
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