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ADR-001 Use Cloud Platform for hosting infrastructure

Status

✅ Accepted

Context

We need a location to host infrastructure to run code and digital services. MoJ Technical Guidance states you must use Cloud Platform by default.

Decision

We will use the Cloud Platform for hosting our digital services, which will include containerised code, apps and managed storage options (RDS, S3) where appropriate. It is a managed public cloud platform endorsed by Justice Digital.

Consequences

As a result of this decision we will benefit from all of the features documented in the Cloud Platform User Guide.

  • We won’t be managing AWS services and infrastructure for workloads running on Cloud Platform
  • Does not support all services and applications, see What can I host on the Cloud Platform?
  • Features such as easy scalability, zero downtime deploys, security scanning, monitoring, logging, and more, all set up by default
  • Configuration is all self-service, using Infrastructure as Code with managed CI/CD and GitOps processes
  • The Cloud Platform team manage the hosting and provide support for the platform
  • We can host GOV.UK Prototype Kit sites quickly and easily
This page was last reviewed on 19 December 2024. It needs to be reviewed again on 19 June 2025 by the page owner #analytical-platform-notifications .