About public cloud services
Find out why and how government organisations use public cloud services to work more productively.
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Meet Cabinet’s requirement for public cloud
Cabinet requires government organisations to use public cloud services, when possible, for information systems. This is the NZ government’s Cloud First policy.
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Benefits of using public cloud services
Public cloud services provide scalable, secure and highly resilient infrastructure tools and web applications. There are immediate and long-term benefits to government organisations using them.
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Public cloud versus other types of cloud
Scale and secure NZ government information by using resources that are set up, owned and maintained by a third-party provider.
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How to adopt public cloud services
What to do before using public cloud services, and how government organisations make them available to their people.
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Write and carry out a cloud plan
Senior leaders are required to write cloud plans that explain their organisation’s approach to using public cloud services.
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Cabinet minutes and papers for public cloud services
Records of the decisions Cabinet has made about government organisations using public cloud services.
- Refreshing the Cloud First policy and strengthening cloud adoption across the public service
- Proposals for refreshing the Cloud First policy and strengthening cloud adoption across the public service
- Accelerating the adoption of public cloud services
- Cloud computing risk and assurance framework
- Improving government information and communications technology assurance
- Managing the Government’s adoption of cloud computing
