*NEW RESEARCH* Case Study: DWP takes credit for firm Universal Credit database foundation

The UK government’s Universal Credit (UC) service has not garnered the best of reputations for a variety of different reasons. But the performance of its digital services in the face of surging demand from hundreds of thousands of new claimants during last year’s Coronavirus lockdowns suggest the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has got something right.

It's reliance on MongoDB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its UC database helped the department scale up provision to meet unprecedented demand in the Spring of 2020. And it also illustrates a wider move towards in-house development teams and the use of public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources to support new application and service creation.

Subscribers to TechSectorViews can read our latest report Case Study: DWP takes credit for firm Universal Credit database foundation for more details about the implementation and how it provided an important testing ground for the migration of additional public sector workloads into cloud hosted environments.

Posted by Martin Courtney at '09:56' - Tagged: cloud   database   public+sector