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Creating a new NHS England: NHS England and NHS Digital merged on 1 February 2023. More about the merger.

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Overview

Each of the sections below are structured to include, where relevant:

  • tools to get things done practical how to guides
  • best practice guidance and resources selected to accelerate your learning (getting started, reference materials, useful links)
  • access to a relevant community of practice (contact, how to join, library/reusable stuff, ground rules)

 

Not sure where to start?

Explore the Cloud Centre of Excellence using our Cloud journey guide.

Cloud topic areas

Strategy

The Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) continues to develop guidance and good practice aligned with the stated strategy of public cloud first.

Learn more about strategy

Governance, security and controls

This section will guide you through the process of requesting a cloud services account.

Tools, techniques, and best practices

Architecture

Cloud Architecture describes how components are brought together to form a cloud as well as how applications are built on the cloud platforms.

How to implement

Financial Operations (FinOps)

Cloud adoption introduces significant changes to the way financial aspects of the IT service are managed.

Find out more about FinOps

Cloud Performance as a Service (Texas)

The Texas platform provides a proven environment for cloud-native application hosting.

Learn more about this platform

Digital development/DevOps

DevOps is a set of practices, tools, and a cultural philosophy that automate and integrate the processes between software development and IT teams.

Digital development

Orchestration and automation

Orchestration refers to managing multiple automated tasks to create a dynamic workflow.

Learn more about Orchestration

Project scoping and management

A cloud adoption framework provides a baseline for organisations to use when mapping out their cloud migration journey

Project scoping and management

Application migration and modernisation

Migration is about moving IT workloads from on-premise to the cloud; modernisation is about using cloud-native capabilities to optimise the application.

Application migration

Security operations

NHS Digital’s cyber and data security team protects our NHS from cyber attacks and monitor for new threats 24 hours a day.

Cyber and data security

Data and insight

Cloud computing analytics helps streamline the process of gathering, integrating, analysing, and using it to extract actionable insights

Data and insight

Cloud consultancy and guidance

Defining and designing secure, high value Cloud solutions to achieve the goals of our customers.

Guidance and information

Vendor and business management

Manage the service catalogue, build and manage relationships with solution providers.

Advice and support

Contract and finance

Additional resources and guidance about CCOE contracts and finance

Finance and contracts

Cost optimisation and Cloud health

Providing customer support and reporting functions.

Cost optimisation and Cloud health

Training

Access cloud training and certification resources from our partner organisations.

Training resources

Contact us

Contact us by emailing cloudcoe@nhs.net. 

If you need further support as an NHS organisations planning or migrating to use Cloud Services contact us using our feedback form for an introductory 30 minute conversation with a member of the team.

Last edited: 17 October 2022 1:02 pm