https://tech.newstatesman.com/cloud/gds-consider-cloud-first-policy

The Government Digital Service (GDS) plans to revise its “cloud first” policy to “cloud smart” or “consider cloud first” when new guidance is published early next year.

It emerged in May that the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and GDS were reviewing the original policy, which mandates central government departments to attempt to host all new technology in the public cloud.