Newly established companies such as Uber and Airbnb exploit an advantage over their competition beyond the genesis of a good idea. They were born in the cloud, and enjoy the innate flexibility and scalability that pure cloud operations entail.

The framework provides UK public sector organisations with a way to buy cloud-based services as commodities to accelerate cloud adoption in a timely and cost-effective manner.

By turning the challenge of acquiring and provisioning hardware into a button press, the cloud has eliminated many barriers to new application deployment. But the benefits that come with this ease of deploying and scaling systems also come with a cost.