Sri Lanka has completed procurement for the Lanka Government Cloud 2.5 environment, which officials describe as a fully resilient, higher-capacity platform that will underpin e-government workloads and the country’s SL-UDI digital identity program. The move follows a mid-October outage on LGC 1.0 that disrupted dozens of public services and triggered calls for stronger cyber resilience.
Authorities say LGC 2.5 introduces geographic redundancy and 24/7 monitoring, and is the first step toward a hybrid multi-cloud model that combines sovereign, resident, and public clouds to protect sensitive biometric data while scaling less sensitive services. For background on the SL-UDI program’s architecture and vendor landscape, see ID Tech’s coverage of Sri Lanka’s national e-ID rollout and the decision to engage Indian firms on a MOSIP-based implementation. Sri Lanka commissions national e-ID project; Sri Lanka taps Indian firms for MOSIP-based national e-ID.
Officials emphasized that no sensitive data was compromised during the October incident and that migrating critical services onto the new sovereign cloud will help rebuild public confidence ahead of broader digitization milestones. (News First)
Sources: News 1st
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
