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Enabling AWS Cross Account Monitoring Using Terraform
This is part of our blog series intended for a technical audience. While we try our best to explain things clearly, we will use technical terms in common use in the industry. As part of our practice...
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How common platforms deliver brilliant digital services
Hi there! I joined GDS back in December 2022 and I’m really pleased to be writing my first blog post. I came to GDS because both the organisation and I share a passion for driving positive impact for...
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GOV.UK One Login: building a green digital service
I wanted to update you on an aspect of our work in GOV.UK One Login that we haven’t really talked about before, our drive to make it one of the most sustainable government digital services in...
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The new in-person identity check for GOV.UK One Login
Core to GDS's mission for GOV.UK One Login is our commitment to make sure as many people as possible can easily prove their identity to access government services. We are therefore excited to...
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GOV.UK Pay product strategy and upcoming features
GOV.UK Pay is the payments platform for the UK public sector. Our vision is to: make it easy for individuals and businesses to pay the public sector make it cheap and easy for the public sector to...
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How we’re opening up access to GOV.UK Forms
Here at GDS, we’re making it easier for departments to build better digital services. GOV.UK Forms is an online form builder which can be used to make accessible and easy to use digital forms for...
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Get involved with the launch of early access to GOV.UK Forms
We launched GOV.UK Forms’ private beta back in April 2022 and we’re now ready to move into our next phase - ‘Early Access’. So far, we’ve been working closely with 11 private beta partners and over...
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How we reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK
We recently reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK pages by moving away from bundling all CSS into a single stylesheet served to all pages to serving smaller stylesheets containing...
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Department for Education: Our experience of joining GOV.UK One Login
This is the first time I have written a guest blog for Government Digital Service (GDS), so I’m really pleased to be able to tell you more about my team and the work we have done with GDS and the...
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How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
We’re making it easier for departments to build digital services here at GDS and we’ve built a tool to make it easy to create online forms for GOV.UK without any specialist digital skills. GOV.UK...
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How we migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
GOV.UK Notify is hosted on the GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS). The PaaS is being retired, so we are migrating all of our infrastructure into our own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. This blog...
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How we are improving GOV.UK Pay with user satisfaction feedback
GOV.UK Pay has grown every year since launching in 2016. 2023 has been our biggest year yet with 364 public sector organisations currently using Pay to take payments for 960 different services, an...
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How we’re using Webinars to demonstrate how quick and easy it is to use...
Here at GDS we’re focused on making digital government simpler, clearer and faster for everyone. As part of the early access phase of GOV.UK Forms we wanted to put this into practice by...
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GOV.UK One Login: A Disclosure and Barring Service Success Story
GOV.UK One Login is the new straightforward, secure way to access a range of government digital services, from requesting a DBS check to signing a mortgage deed. In 2021, the Disclosure and Barring...
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From Whitechapel to the White House
The Government Digital Service's (GDS) mission is to design and protect the user experience of government - making it better for users and cheaper for the taxpayer. Over the last year, we've been...
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How to 'Get Started' using GOV.UK Forms - experiences of the...
Over the last 12 months at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), we've published 12 GOV.UK Forms, and we've received more than 14,000 form submissions. We've also developed a clear backlog...
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How we migrated GOV.UK Notify to AWS Elastic Container Service
GOV.UK Notify has finished our migration from GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS). In our previous blog post we talked about how we migrated our database. In this post, former Notify team member David...
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GOV.UK One Login: Designing for inclusion at scale
The GOV.UK One Login mission is to ‘make it easy for everyone to access government services’. However, translating exactly what ‘for everyone’ looks like in the context of identity proofing is not an...
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Ringing in success with the GOV.UK One Login contact centre
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is on a mission to help the government make brilliant public services for everyone. As part of this, GOV.UK One Login lets users sign in and prove their identity...
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How GDS is supporting women in STEM
Introduction Here at the Government Digital Service, we're committed to gender equality throughout our workforce. So, it's crucial that we do our bit to make sure younger generations can take...
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