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The MHCLG Way and its content is intended for internal use by the MHCLG community.

How to host a service

In MHCLG, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to host our services.

We follow the Government Cloud First policy and use AWS and Azure managed cloud services and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to host our services rather than using our own hardware.

AWS

For information on how AWS is used and configured in MHCLG, see the Cloud Platforms Team’s AWS guidance.

Azure

For information on how Azure is used and configured in MHCLG, see the Cloud Platforms Team’s Azure guidance.

This page was last reviewed on 28 July 2025. It needs to be reviewed again on 28 July 2026 by the page owner #mhclg-way .