As per Guido:
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:
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC): handles customs, taxation, and border systems.
Tax does have to be taxing.
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Best described as 'what you get when you put all your eggs in one basket'
ReplyDeleteHMRC should have kept it in house, might have been more expensive but they would have had complete control.
I've got my suspicion why all of this work keeps getting tendered out
Maybe the Daily Mail are on to something.
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