[ris]

> This isn't a startup hacking away trying to find PMF, or dealing with unpredictable marketing-driven traffic spikes. We know we need these services running long term, and can make solid predictions about usage patterns.

If you think government needs and demands are predictable, you don't follow politics (particularly uk politics in the last decade).

And then there are these things like pandemics that completely come out of left field. Being able to scale things on demand over the pandemic was one of the key demonstrators for use of the public commercial cloud by the public sector.

[objektif]

Why do we assume scaling can happen only on cloud? Gov sites are usually very low tech. We are not mining crypto. I would guess even if they outright bought servers and just scrap them later on they would come ahead.