AWS wins yet another UK public-sector contract – this time to provide £15m health data system for NHS Scotland

NHS Education for Scotland has awarded AWS a £15m contract to host its National Digital Platform, an architecture to share data across the nation's health service. The education and training body within NHS Scotland said that the platform would be designed to "create and deploy real time data at the point of care", "operate to …

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait for it

Get your pitch forks out! Sharing Data with Amazon, how dare they!

[Headley_Grange]

Anyone know .....

..... if these contracts are structured so that the public sector retains IP in the architecture and metadata so that AWS can't make it stupidly expensive to change suppliers n the future?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Anyone know .....

At least with the existing systems mention of course the NHS keeps everything. AWS is being used the same way as any other customer would. As such I would expect this is just an upfront spending commitment rather than Amazon actually being directly involved, although it probably includes technical support. Likewise if It had gone to Azure then MS would have the same relationship.

[Anonymous Coward]

How does this square with the US CLOUD act? As far as I can see it and GDPR are pretty much directly contradictory - as a US company Amazon would have to follow any requests under the CLOUD act, which could place them (and NHS Scotland) in breach of GDPR. It appears the only way to 100% avoid this is to use an EU headquartered Cloud hosting company?

[Anonymous Coward]

Likely risk assessed, accepted etc.

There will be provisions they make e.g data must remain within the UK etc

[Anonymous Coward]

No information on the nature of the award. Was this competed fair and square?

[Nosher]

Nice to see uk.gov spending our money with a company that conveniently manages to avoid paying anything like a fair amount of tax, whilst at the same time contributing significantly to the death of the High Street. Taking all, and giving back nothing.

[albaleo]

"whilst at the same time contributing significantly to the death of the High Street"

Is it not us plebs that are contributing more to that? We have a choice, and we choose to buy online (sweeping generalization).

But anyway, AWS is a little different from the Amazon shopping setup, at least in terms of target customers.

[katrinab]

gov.scot in this case

[macjules]

Two words

"Corporation Tax". Will Bezos' Shop of Grot being paying tax on their earnings from HMG? No? Thought not.