Azure for the public sector
We design, build and run Microsoft Azure for central and local government, agencies and public bodies: secure landing zones, data residency that satisfies sovereignty rules, and a managed estate delivered by one accountable Veratas team.
Cloud in the public sector carries obligations a generic migration ignores
Public bodies move to Azure under scrutiny that commercial organisations rarely face.
Public sector cloud adoption sits inside a tight frame of rules. Procurement runs through framework agreements and must be demonstrably fair, which constrains how an estate is bought and how a partner is engaged. Spending is open to audit, so cost has to be transparent and attributable to a service rather than buried in a single subscription. And the technology itself often predates the cloud: line of business systems, case management and citizen records that were never designed to be lifted and shifted.
Data adds a second layer of obligation. Citizen records, benefits data, health and social care information and law enforcement data each carry their own handling rules, and the question of where that data physically sits is no longer a technical footnote. Sovereignty and residency commitments have to be designed into the platform, evidenced and kept true as services change, not asserted once at go-live.
The result is that a public body cannot treat an Azure move as a server relocation. It needs a landing zone built to a known security baseline, an identity model that withstands audit, a clear position on residency, and a route to retire legacy systems without interrupting the services citizens depend on. Veratas delivers that whole picture under one accountable team, accredited to ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and CMMI Level 3.
What Azure changes for a public body
The areas where a properly governed Azure estate earns its place in the public sector.
Secure landing zones
We build the estate on an Azure landing zone with management groups, policy guardrails, network segmentation and logging set to a defined security baseline, so every new service inherits controls rather than being secured by hand.
Sovereignty and data residency
We pin workloads and data to approved regions, document where citizen and case data resides, and use Azure Policy to prevent resources being created outside the agreed geography, keeping residency commitments provable over time.
Legacy modernisation
We assess ageing line of business and case management systems and plan a realistic path: rehost, replatform or rebuild, sequenced so essential citizen services keep running throughout the transition.
Identity built for audit
We implement Microsoft Entra ID with conditional access, role based access control and privileged access management, giving a defensible record of who can reach which system and under what conditions.
Transparent, attributable cost
We apply FinOps practice: tagging, budgets and cost allocation by service, so finance teams can show auditors and oversight bodies exactly what each public service costs to run in the cloud.
How Veratas delivers Azure for the public sector
A structured route from current estate to a governed, auditable Azure platform.
Assess and frame
We review the existing estate, security obligations, residency requirements and procurement constraints, and agree the security baseline and target architecture before any build begins.
Build the landing zone
We deploy the Azure landing zone as code: management groups, policy, networking, Entra ID identity and centralised logging, so the foundation is consistent and repeatable.
Migrate and modernise
We move workloads in planned waves, modernising legacy systems where it is justified and protecting live citizen services with tested rollback at every step.
Govern and run
We operate the estate as a managed service: security monitoring, patching, backup, cost control and evidence packs that keep the platform audit ready.
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Plan a secure Azure estate for your organisation
Book a discovery call and we will review your current estate, residency obligations and modernisation priorities, then set out a clear route to a governed Azure platform.