UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity

""It will take some time to fully understand the scale of the impact. DSIT [the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology] will be gathering a full picture of the impact on government in the coming weeks," he wrote in a parliamentary written answer to Dame Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West. DSIT will then "set out a clear approach" for dealing with cybersecurity and resilience incidents in a government cyber action plan it will publish this winter, he added."

""Errors in AWS's DNS services in Northern Virginia affected many public and private sector sites and apps in the UK and elsewhere, including those run by His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). They also affected "smart" internet-connected devices including mattresses, light bulbs, and cat toilets. The government does not currently have data on how this is split between those suppliers, but DSIT is developing a cloud consumption dashboard "to provide government with greater visibility of cloud usage and costs across the public sector.""

AWS's October 20 outage disrupted multiple government departments and suppliers, with services restored by the evening. DSIT will gather a full picture of the impact over coming weeks and will set out a clear approach for cybersecurity and resilience incidents in a government cyber action plan to be published this winter. Errors in AWS's DNS services in Northern Virginia affected many public and private sector sites and apps in the UK and elsewhere and also impacted internet-connected "smart" devices. The government estimates up to 60 percent of its digital estate is hosted on cloud platforms and is developing a cloud consumption dashboard to improve visibility of cloud usage and costs.

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