HMRC's £500m tender for a hyperscale cloud provider to oversee its 10-year datacentre exit and cloud migration has ignited concerns of anti-competitiveness and rigidity among UK cloud stakeholders. Critics argue that such a long-term commitment to a single hyperscaler is untenable in a rapidly evolving technology landscape and geopolitical climate. Experts warn that it introduces risks and costs, undermining resilience and the diversification needed within digital capabilities. Many highlight that recent governmental perspectives suggested shorter contract durations were more appropriate, given the uncertainties in international commerce and technology advancements.
"Committing to a single provider on such a timescale introduces unnecessary risk, cost and dependency, precisely when we should be building resilience by diversifying and investing in our sovereign digital capabilities."
"In these changeable and even friable times, with technology advancing at an incredible rate, [...] this doesn't seem to be a particularly agile or wise thing to do."
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