Drivers for cloud adoption and overall lifecycle for Indian govt enterprises

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Drivers for cloud adoption and overall lifecycle for Indian govt enterprises

Vandhna Babu

@vandhna123

April 17, 2023

Cloud Computing

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Post pandemic, cloud adoption has witnessed a magnificent growth across the world. Organisations across the world have fast moved on their digital transformation journeys through wide adoption of cloud. The govt. of India launched Digital India mission in 2015 to ensure the digitally empower its citizens and make bolster the country’s digital infrastructure. Across many govt. enterprises too, we have witnessed varied degrees of cloud adoption.

There are many drivers which have pushed cloud adoption in India.

Data safety and regulations - One of the major concerns for the govt. has been safety of sensitive govt. data and the non-existence of India based data centres of majority of the CSPS. The govt cloud policy launched in 2015 motivated CSPs to bring their cloud data centres in India to improve their services in the country.

Empanelment of CSPs – With the empanelment of CSPs, govt departments and ministries started leveraging and used cloud related services.

Embracing new technologies and platforms – In recent years, the govt. also increasingly encouraged implementation of technologies such as AI, ML, IoT, advanced analytics and cognitive services, etc. which are being delivered through the cloud.

Increasing acceptability – From 2012 onwards, the govt. encouraged enterprises as well as the govt. to start adopting cloud in their applications, thereby, acknowledging the benefits of cloud across all sectors in multiple domains.

Cloud adoption lifecycle in govt ministries

Identification and assessment – Govt. ministries or departments must identify the need to adopt cloud and do a cost-benefit analysis. They also should do cloud-readiness assessment and evaluate their current application and infrastructure to ascertain investment needed to migrate applications to cloud. They should also explore best practices within other ministries and departments who the successfully done the migration.

Planning – Once decided to migrate applications to cloud, the ministries must select the right cloud model for them, whether a public, private, hybrid, or poly cloud model and assign the correct roles and responsibilities to the responsible team members. They must also have a robust selection criteria for CSPs and choose the right one who will act as a counsellor for them throughout the process. A detailed migration plan must be charted and overall capacity sizing and planning must be assessed.

Building – In this step, the cloud services are procured and migration guidelines for deployment on cloud are finalised and put into action.

Implementation - One of the most crucial steps, where cloud platform based services are deployed and a detailed migration roadmap is charted out and implemented within the ministry or department.
Management & Monitoring – The final step after implementation includes SLA monitoring, vendor management, cloud data management, reports, and documentation etc.

While we many see differing degrees of cloud adoption across the govt departments, however, many have already taken the steps to incorporate cloud technology into their departments’ applications and have made short, medium, and long-term goal posts to completely be adopt MeitY’s “cloud-first” policy for their existing and new applications and move full steam into becoming a USD 5 trillion economy.

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Vandhna Babu

Principal Analyst - Research