Amazon Web Services is down in a major internet outage affecting its clients, which includes thousands of popular websites, apps, and games. No Snapchat for the kids…
AWS is also used extremely widely across the UK public sector. Here are some examples:
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC): handles customs, taxation, and border systems.
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Home Office: supports national security, immigration, and law enforcement systems.
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Department for Work and Pensions: delivers benefits, pensions, and welfare infrastructure.
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Ministry of Justice: operates secure information and data exchange systems.
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Government Digital Service: hosts GOV.UK Notify and other core platforms on AWS Elastic Container Service.
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Ministry of Defence: uses AWS for defence analytics and secure cloud collaboration.
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GCHQ, MI5, and SIS: share an intelligence cloud platform hosted by AWS for classified data.
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HM Land Registry: automates records and mapping processes with AWS AI/ML tools.
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Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency: operates DevOps and testing pipelines on AWS.
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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: integrates AWS for service delivery.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: runs its Core Delivery Platform using AWS ECS and Fargate.
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Department of Health and Social Care: uses AWS for healthcare digitalisation and research systems.
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NHS Digital: employs AWS for national-scale analytics and data interoperability.
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Office for National Statistics: manages cloud-based data processing workloads.
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National Crime Agency: uses AWS for counter-fraud and intelligence systems.
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Education and Skills Funding Agency: hosts data-driven applications via AWS.
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: uses AWS for global data systems.
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Social Security Scotland: builds welfare systems on AWS infrastructure.
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Companies House: uses AWS Lambda and automation tools for filings and data access.
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Crown Commercial Service: coordinates AWS procurement under G-Cloud and OGVA frameworks.
Anyone wanting to stress test government digital infrastructure on a global basis would do well to target AWS. Kicking one fuse box in Whitehall also takes out four departments to be fair…
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