Cabinet minutes and papers for public cloud services
Records of the decisions Cabinet has made about government organisations using public cloud services.
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Refreshing the Cloud First policy and strengthening cloud adoption across the public service
April 2023 — Cabinet endorsed the Cloud First policy, and considering te ao Māori perspectives and sustainability principles. This decision includes, over time, storing RESTRICTED information in New Zealand-based data centres.
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Proposals for refreshing the Cloud First policy and strengthening cloud adoption across the public service
April 2023 — Cabinet considered the Cloud First policy, and considering te ao Māori perspectives and sustainability principles. This consideration included, over time, storing RESTRICTED information in New Zealand-based data centres.
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Accelerating the adoption of public cloud services
July 2016 — Cabinet endorsed increasing government organisations’ use of infrastructure tools and web applications offered through public cloud services.
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Cloud computing risk and assurance framework
October 2013 — Cabinet endorsed government organisations in adopting public cloud services on a case-by-case basis, following a risk assessment.
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Improving government information and communications technology assurance
June 2013 — Cabinet extended the risk assessment process for cloud to the system-wide framework for information and communications technology (ICT).
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Managing the Government’s adoption of cloud computing
August 2012 — Cabinet endorsed government organisations in adopting public cloud services in preference to traditional systems of information technology.
