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AWS secures 894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day | Computer Weekly
AWS has signed three multi-million pound government contracts that went live in December 2023, potentially bringing in more revenue than its participation in the G-Cloud procurement framework over the past decade.
The contracts, valued at a total of £894m, were arranged via the government's G-Cloud procurement framework and provide committed spend discounts on AWS services.
The fact that these contracts were awarded through G-Cloud just days after the launch of the £1.35bn Cloud Compute 2 framework raises questions about the government's hyperscale-focused approach. [ more ]