GOV UK PaaS

Description

A part of the Common Platform provided by GDS, PaaS is a service which provides development teams from within the public sector with the ability to host and run applications written in a limited set of languages, use some common hosted backing services and do so cheaply and efficiently.

It is primarily designed for government digital services that do not have or do not wish to spend money on infrastructure operations engineers to manage their services. Due to the lack of infrastructure engineers, the system is designed to only allow applications to run that have very simple operational requirements, those that fit within a defined architecture pattern generally called “12 factor”.

For more details see the service features

Contacts

Method	Link
Web	https://admin.london.cloud.service.gov.uk/support
Slack	https://ukgovernmentdigital.slack.com/archives/C33SAH4GJ

Integration Architecture

Capacity Planning

SLA	measurement
Expected Load Avg	10 concurrent requests per second
Expected Load Max	40 concurrent requests per second

Support Model

SLA	24-hour platform level support
Triage / Escalation Model	Slack channel is monitored 24/7

DevOps Contacts

Reports	Usage
Monitoring	https://status.cloud.service.gov.uk
Change log	https://github.com/alphagov/paas-roadmap/projects/1?fullscreen=true
Incident management	https://admin.london.cloud.service.gov.uk/support

Licenses

N/A

Pricing

Service	Size	Estimated Costs (per month)
Compute	4x 2 GiB of memory	£64.51
Redis	3x small-ha-5.x	£266.10
Postgres	3x small-ha-11	£205.53
InfluxDB	3x tiny-1.x	£224.64
Admin fee of 10%	N/A	£76.08
	Total	£836.86

For more detailed information please see the service pricing and the Cost Calculator.

Run Books

Getting Access
Adding a new team member to a service
Rotating API access keys

Common / Known Issues

Issue	Response

Scheduled / Regular Tasks

Manual / Automated	Performed By	Task Summary