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How to host a service

In GDS, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host our services.

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

See also

• Working with AWS accounts
• Tagging AWS resources
• Use configuration management

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