Cloud primer
An introduction to public cloud services for business audiences.
Our strategy focuses on the use of public cloud services, such as those provided by the hyper-scale cloud providers.
A simple description of Public cloud services is:
To better understand what we mean by public cloud services, it’s useful to consider some common use cases.
| Cloud service | Use case |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Office 365 | Migrating your email service from an on-premises email system to Microsoft Office 365 |
| Google CloudSQL | Migrating one of your application databases from an on-premises database server, to a managed database instance on Google Cloud Platform |
| AWS virtual server instance | Migrating a server-based application workload from a server in your datacentre to virtual server instance hosted by Amazon Web Services |
Many different types of cloud service are available to be used on-demand with a flexible consumption-based charging model.
| Service Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Productivity tools | User productivity tools such as Office 365 or Google Docs |
| Virtual server hosting | Virtual servers that run remotely and host your application or service (workload) |
| Website hosting | Web-hosting services that can replace your on-premises website servers whilst scaling to meet any demand |
| Database services | Database services that can replace your on-premises database servers, improving availability and performance whilst reducing the need to manage servers |
| Data storage and archiving | Near limitless data storage and archiving capacity that can supplement or replace your on-premises data storage systems |
| Serverless | Cloud services that eliminate the need to build, maintain and operate infrastructure - allowing you to focus on innovative services, not systems or servers |
| Artifical intelligence | Artificial Intelligence services that can drive efficiencies in your organisation by removing the need for human oversight of simple or time-consuming tasks, providing more time for your staff to focus on high-value tasks |
| Disaster Recovery | DR capabilities that can supplement or replace your existing recovery services, allowing you to recover services to the cloud, removing the need to own and maintain a recovery premises (backup site) |
Leading vendors offer in excess of 200 different cloud services, with more being released regularly.
Contact
Email: Cloud1st@gov.scot
Telephone: 0300 244 4000
Post:
Cloud First
Cloud and Digital Services Division
Area 1H South
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
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