In just one year, UK.gov's direct spend on AWS rises 76 percent

Cloud giant AWS collected a staggering 76 percent more direct public sector revenue from the UK government in the past financial year. The cloud infrastructure and hosting titan saw direct sales hit £253 million in fiscal year 2022/23, according to figures from public sector spending researcher Tussell. Although AWS pocketed …

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Investigation

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to carry out an investigation into public cloud infrastructure services

Well, that's going to be a nothingburger.

Obviously there is a push from the government to use multinational big corporations that operate on more favourable terms than domestic businesses which is already skewing the market.

and if this is coming from the top, CMA can investigate to their hearts content and nothing will change.

I doubt they can review the "blind" trusts certain decisionmakers are invested in.

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Multinational corporations operate on more favourable terms?

More to do with political donations that any technical or financial advantage. What do you get for your money - a backed -- in the "cloud".