The UK government’s public cloud-first policy has undergone its first major update in a decade, with the guidance now urging central government departments to “challenge themselves” to source services from a wider range of providers to prevent supplier lock-in.
Introduced in 2013, the policy mandates that all central government departments must take a public cloud-first stance when procuring new or existing services, meaning they must evaluate off-premise technologies before considering any other option. The wider public sector is not mandated to follow this guidance, but is strongly encouraged to do so.
