Cloud Managed Platforms – What to Expect?

The Digital Economy and Society Ministry has commissioned National Telecom (NT), the state telecom enterprise, to create a Cloud Managed Platform (CMP). This development comes in response to the substantial demand among state agencies for a central portal to access services from any cloud provider.

Ministry’s Deputy Permanent Secretary Nattapon Nattasomboon announced that NT received an allocation of 600 million baht (US$17 million) from the ministry’s 2024 investment budget to develop the CMP. The budget allocation is currently under review by the House of Representatives.

Nattapon, who doubles as NT’s chairman, acknowledged that the existing Government Data Center and Cloud (GDCC) system operated by NT can only support 25,000 virtual machines (VMs) for state units. This capacity is significantly lower than the nationwide demand from state units,…