This year's budget for public cloud conversion projects has been reduced to about 20% compared to the original plan.

From 2021 to 2025, the government's plan to convert all administrative and public institution information systems into 100% cloud has become inevitable. The government is busy preparing 'Plan B' and cloud companies are busy establishing countermeasures.

The budget for the public cloud conversion project of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security in 2023 was confirmed to be 34.2 billion won. It is less than half of the 175.3 billion won proposed by the "Information Resource Cloud Conversion and Integration Promotion Plan for Administrative and Public Institutions" in 2021.

The government executed 57 billion won in 2021, the first year of public cloud conversion, and 178.6 billion won last year, the second year. It supported the cost of switching to the cloud by institution and the initial one-year fee for private and public cloud centers.

This year, it planned to convert and integrate 2,167 administrative and public information systems and 13,004 servers into the cloud, but it failed to escape the overall budget cut.

The Ministry of Public Administration and Security is in a position to review the public cloud conversion business plan in the 'zero base'. First of all, the government plans to come up with an action plan for this year's budget of 34.2 billion won and set up a business plan for 2024 and 2025.

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