The results of the 2024 Government Cloud Early Transition Organization Verification Project (1st to 3rd) were announced [For local government employees]

Published:: Mar 31, 2025

In order to enable the smooth transition of information systems to the Government Cloud developed by Digital Agency and to optimize system operation costs, NICT invited applications for early transition group verification projects in order to verify issues related to the transition to the Government Cloud and the operation of systems on the Government Cloud.

Overview

1. Subject organization

Local governments that wish to start using Government Cloud in the following period among those that wish to cooperate with the verification
- First Public Offering: April to June 2024
- Second Public Offering: July to September 2024
- Third public offering: From October 2024 to March 2025

*For details, please check the Public offering materials.

2. Target Business System

Standard compliance system
A core business system that conforms to the standardization standards (*); provided, however, that this shall not preclude the application of the system prior to standard compliance on the premise that the system will be compliant with the standards in the future.
Associated system
In addition to a system that links APIs for business data with standard compliance system, a system that local governments judge to be efficient to build in a government cloud as in standard compliance system.

* Standards necessary for standardization prescribed in Article 6, Paragraph 1 and Article 7, Paragraph 1 of the Standardization Act

3. Content of Verification

When local governments migrate their target business systems to the Government Cloud, they will check work procedures and verify whether there are any issues in actual work in order to do this smoothly.

4. Verification Items

In-depth verification [For leading business organizations in fiscal 2023] (Only the first public offering)
In this project, the following points are verified.
- Required Validation Items
  - Verification of cost-effectiveness when lifting to the Government Cloud
- Select one or more of the following items for verification
  - A Review of Government Cloud Recommended Configurations
  - Examination of cost allocation measures in the shared use system
  - Verifying Application Isolation in a Shared Usage Scheme
  - Verification of cost reduction effects by cloud optimization (modernization) such as utilization of managed services
  - Verification of encryption key management and deletion
  - Validating Efficient Operations in Multi-Vendor, Multi-Cloud Configurations
  - Verification of target management indicators
  - Verification of efficient joint use services such as joint monitoring infrastructure
  - Other verifications deemed useful in consultation with the Digital Agency.
Migration verification [For early organizations in fiscal 2023 and organizations that will newly use Government Cloud from fiscal 2024]
In this project, the following points are verified.
Select multiple items from the following verification items.
- Select two or more of the following items for verification
  - Verification of application and usage flow via GCAS (including verification of two-factor authentication to access management console via GCAS)
    *GCAS (Government Cloud Assistant Service) is a web service that provides information, responds to inquiries, applies for use, and provides guidance on the use of the government cloud as an onboarding tool. In this item, the two-factor authentication at the time of login to the government cloud (single sign-on) using the GCAS IDs shall be verified. The MFA devices (hardware) required for login with administrator rights shall be prepared by the Digital Agency. In addition, the response flow assuming the failure or loss of MFA devices shall be verified.
  - Validating the Billing Model
  - Cost verification by shortening the transition period and efficient system operation
  - Verification of the Use of Government Cloud by Some Administrative Associations and Wide-Area Associations
  - Verification of prefectural government cloud use
  - Verification of administrative processes and division of responsibilities among Government Cloud Operation Assistant, Network Operation Assistant, and Integrated Operation Assistant
  - Verification of simultaneous transition of lift shift
  - Verification of Collaboration among Government Cloud, Agency Networks, LGWAN-ASP Services, etc.

Public offering period

First public offering period: From February 7, 2024 to 17:00 on March 6, 2024
Second public offering period: From May 9, 2024 to 17:00 on June 7, 2024
The third public offering period: from July 31, 2024 to 17:00 on September 27, 2024

Public offering materials

Result of adoption

List of organizations selected (PDF/311KB)
Security system
A group of 7 prefectures and 258 municipalities was adopted.
- Aomori Prefecture and 40 municipalities in the prefecture
- Iwate Prefecture and 33 municipalities in the prefecture
- Miyagi Prefecture and 35 municipalities in the prefecture
- Akita Prefecture and 25 municipalities in the prefecture
- Yamagata Prefecture and 35 municipalities in the prefecture
- Fukushima Prefecture and 60 municipalities in the prefecture
- Niigata Prefecture and 30 municipalities in the prefecture

Related Information

Unification and standardization of key operation systems of local governments

Contact Information

Digital Agency Group of Common Functions for Digital Society Regional Business System Infrastructure Team
Phone: 03 6891 1270
Email:govcloud-contact-lg2024 _ atmark _ digital.go.jp
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In charge: Hata, Matsuda, Yamamoto, Go, Satoh, Sawada, Itou, Kariya, Shimabuku, Mita, Ogaki, Arase