Evolution of GI Cloud “Meghraj– a Successful journey towards Digital India

Abstract

Cloud is the internet container layer to share the ICT resources over the internet as a service
on demand. Govt. of India introduced cloud services titled as "Meghraj" in 2014 with the basic purpose
of optimum use of the ICT resources by leveraging the shared Govt. resources and minimizing the
technical efforts and exercise in the interest of utility computing, increase efficiency with increased
throughput, improved service delivery and to provide cost-effective solutions in the interest of effective
and concrete e-Governance framework. It's the primary initial implementation phase of the Development
of the GI cloud. The GI cloud is expanded in infrastructure volume, Applications, usage, and users on
the same traditional approach and technologies, Network, Application, Security, etc. implemented since
launching. This paper investigates, study and analyze cloud computing in the Indian government and
propose the technologies that need to be adapted, scalability of infrastructure, enhancing connectivity,
accessibility, cloud-native applications, etc as per global changing scenario, fulfill the future needs,
privacy, risk and security, improved service delivery for sustainable development goal of the digital
nation in real sense. It is identified that the evolution of the technologies like IoT, WiFi-6, 5G, etc. gives
large scope for boundary-level computing and generates a very huge amount of data at the data source
level produced by the end-users. These technologies require agile real-time processing and analysis of
the data at the source level. According to the new implementation demands, various emerging cloud
technologies such as Mobile Cloud Apps, Containers, Serverless, Microservices, DevOps, BlockChain,
Fog computing, Edge Computing, and Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI), etc are proposed for
implementation for cloud computing in Indian government.