Rackspace Government Cloud (Azure) 10wk Assessment

To meet Cabinet Office guidance, government organisations are looking to migrate their services to the cloud. In addition to reducing costs, the cloud allows the adoption of transformative technologies, to enable government departments to provide better services to the public. Rackspace Government Cloud on Microsoft® Azure® is designed to help public sector organisations migrate to the cloud at substantial cost and time savings while overcoming cloud adoption challenges, including: • Meeting government compliance requirements • Addressing public cloud security concerns • Finding Azure specialists with relevant skills and experience • Following budget restrictions • Implementing strategies for cost optimisation

Rackspace Government Cloud on Azure is an end-to-end Solution that combines pre-tested UK OFFICIAL Landing Zone templates with a Public Services Network accredited operating environment and a UK Sovereign operating model. Automation has been used throughout this end-to-end Solution to minimise the time, cost and risk of initial deployment as well as technical policies that, combined with operational best practice enforce security posture and assure regulatory compliance throughout. A Solution that has been designed specifically for the UK Government, to NCSC 14 Cloud Principles and that is ready to host UK Government workloads on Azure.