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FOI questions below:
1. Do you have a cloud strategy? (Please provide a link to the strategy)
a. Yes
b. No
2. When was the cloud strategy defined?
3. If yes, what is the focus of your cloud strategy?
a. All in on public cloud (no private cloud or on-premise infrastructure)
b. Cloud First (new services in public cloud with some on premises infrastructure or private cloud)
c. Hybrid cloud (some combination of one or more public clouds, private cloud and on-premises)
d. Private cloud (no public cloud)
4. What public cloud(s) do you use?
a. AWS
b. Alibaba Cloud
c. Azure
d. Google Cloud Platform
e. Oracle Cloud
f. UK Cloud
5. What percentage of your applications and/or workloads is on premise?
a. 0%
b. 10% - 25%
c. 25% - 50%
d. 50% - 75%
e. 100%
6. What percentage of your applications and/or workloads is in the public cloud?
a. 0%
b. 10% - 25%
c. 25% - 50%
d. 50% - 75%
e. 100%
7. What percentage of your data is on premise?
a. 0%
b. 10% - 25%
c. 25% - 50%
d. 50% - 75%
e. 100%
8. What percentage of your data is in the public cloud?
a. 0%
b. 10% - 25%
c. 25% - 50%
d. 50% - 75%
e. 100%
9. What percentage of your infrastructure is legacy?
a. 0%
b. 10% - 25%
c. 25% - 50%
d. 50% - 75%
e. 100%
10. Do you have third-party services or solutions on premise that are not cloud-ready or fit for cloud migration?
a. Yes
b. No
11. What workloads or functions have you moved to the cloud? (Multiple answers. Please specify other if not listed)
a. Office productivity (e.g. Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)
b. Citizen-facing digital services (e.g. GOV.UK)
c. Back-office applications (e.g. transaction processing)
d. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cognitive services
e. Software development/DevOps
f. Corporate functions (e.g. HR, Finance, CRM)
g. Intranet
h. Public website
i. Backup, business continuity and disaster recovery
j. Other
12. What challenges did you face when moving to the public cloud? (Multiple answers. Please specify other if not listed)
a. Migrating certain applications
b. Legacy infrastructure
c. Different refresh cycles
d. Difficulty proving cost illustrations
e. Funding paths (Capex/Opex)
f. Data gravity
g. Data Classification
h. Licensing concerns
i. Data privacy concerns
j. Offshoring & data residency
k. Lack of in-house skills
l. Vendor lock-in/ Egress cost prohibitive
m. Other
13. What percentage of your infrastructure do you plan to be public cloud based in 12 months' time?
f. 0%
g. 10% - 25%
h. 25% - 50%
i. 50% - 75%
j. 100%
14. What percentage of your infrastructure do you plan to be public cloud based in three years' time?
a. 0%
b. 10% - 25%
c. 25% - 50%
d. 50% - 75%
e. 100%
15. How much has your organisation spent on public cloud since the Government's G-Cloud or 'cloud-first' policy was introduced in 2012?
16. How much has your organisation spent on on-premise infrastructure since the Government's G-Cloud or 'cloud-first' policy was introduced in 2012?
17. How much has your organisation spent on cloud/infrastructure consultancy services in FY 20-21?
18. How much was spent on public cloud data egress charges in FY 20-21?
We said
Thank you for your request. Please see the following answers to your questions.
1, Do you have a cloud strategy? (Please provide a link to the strategy)
Our current approach to cloud follows the GDS Cloud Strategy which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cloud-guide-for-the-public-sector/cloud-guide-for-the-public-sector. We have not created a document that would be considered an ONS cloud strategy.
2, When was the cloud strategy defined?
Our approach to cloud began in 2016 and follows a cloud first policy.
3, If yes, what is the focus of your cloud strategy?
We have a cloud first policy approach but we also have Hybrid deployments.
a, All in on public cloud (no private cloud or on-premise infrastructure)
4, What public cloud(s) do you use?
a, AWS
c, Azure
d, Google Cloud Platform
e, Oracle Cloud
f, UK Cloud
g, IMB Cloud
5, What percentage of your applications and/or workloads is on premise?
50% - 75%
6, What percentage of your applications and/or workloads is in the public cloud?
10% - 25%
7, What percentage of your data is on premise?
100%
8, What percentage of your data is in the public cloud?
0%
9, What percentage of your infrastructure is legacy?
50% - 75%
10, Do you have third-party services or solutions on premise that are not cloud-ready or fit for cloud migration?
Yes
11, What workloads or functions have you moved to the cloud? (Multiple answers. Please specify other if not listed)
a, Office productivity (e.g. Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)
b, Citizen-facing digital services (e.g. GOV.UK)
e, Software development/DevOps
f, Corporate functions (e.g. HR, Finance, CRM)
h, Public website
12, What challenges did you face when moving to the public cloud? (Multiple answers. Please specify other if not listed)
a, Migrating certain applications
b, Legacy infrastructure
f, Data gravity
h, Licensing concerns
j, Offshoring & data residency
l, Vendor lock-in/ Egress cost prohibitive
13, What percentage of your infrastructure do you plan to be public cloud based in 12 months' time?
50% - 75%
14, What percentage of your infrastructure do you plan to be public cloud based in three years' time?
50% - 75%
15, How much has your organisation spent on public cloud since the Government's G-Cloud or 'cloud-first' policy was introduced in 2012?
£5,111,617
16, How much has your organisation spent on on-premise infrastructure since the Government's G-Cloud or 'cloud-first' policy was introduced in 2012?
£1,745,149
17, How much has your organisation spent on cloud/infrastructure consultancy services in FY 20-21?
£195,000
18, How much was spent on public cloud data egress charges in FY 20-21?
None