"The proponents of hyperscale cloud will always say they have the best engineers, the most staff and the greatest pool of resources, but bigger is not always better - and certainly not when countries rely on those commodity global services for their own national security, safety and operations."
"Nationally important services must be recognised as best delivered under national control, and as a minimum, the government should be knocking on AWS's door today and asking if they can in fact deliver a service that guarantees UK uptime,"
"Because the evidence from this week's outage suggests that they cannot."
A multi-hour AWS outage began just before 8am UK time on 20 October in the US‑East‑1 region in North Virginia. The outage caused large-scale disruption to many companies worldwide and affected UK organisations including HM Revenue & Customs and Lloyds Banking Group. US‑East‑1 is Amazon's first, largest and flagship cloud region and is often where new services are rolled out, increasing the risk of overseas impact. Concerns about over-reliance on US‑based hyperscale cloud providers have intensified. The incident prompted renewed calls for transparency about hosting resiliency and for government scrutiny of providers' ability to guarantee UK uptime.
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