The Government Digital Service is hoping to refresh it’s ‘cloud first’ policy according to publictechnology.net. The cloud first policy encourages all public sector IT buyers to consider the cloud as the first option. The idea of the policy, introduced in 2013, is that it allows departments to work more flexibly as oppose to building or buying an entire stack. The GDS has now stated that it hopes to update the policy and to provide clarity to civil servants and public sector workers about what “good looks like” when using the cloud.

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