Posts by Curlypig

UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity

Re: We don't need yet another blueprint

How strange. As of early evening 29/10/25 we have simultaneous global Azure and AWS outages. Is the blueprint ready yet?

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Re: OK, I don't work for the government as such

"As per the government's Digital Roadmap we endeavour to make significant savings by leveraging our combined purchasing power, as we seek to to shift to a 'buy once, use many times' approach to technology." - today's statement from the Cab Off. I'd love to see the impact and competition analyses that ought to be underpinning this approach. Cheaper on paper in the short term but....

Re: The Unacceptable

"The CDDO suggestion to resolve this? Lets repackage and re-brand it and then buy more of the same. That's not a strategy - its capitulation". I couldn't agree more. It does make me wonder of CDDO is trying to fend off the CMA'S cloud investigation, because it beggars belief to read that CDDO think that HMG's approach to cloud to date might only fall under CMA scrutiny a decade from now.

AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office

Re: "The contract – valued at £450,281,369 to be precise"

Problem is that the Home Office cloud engineers won't be reading the contract. It will be left to Home Office procurement/finance to pick up the tab after the engineers have deployed every widget, bell and whistle that they fancy playing with. A funny old world where non procurement professionals will be calling the fiscal shots over a contract worth nearly half a billion

Interesting detail in the contract

I wouldn't worry so much about the S3 buckets - the Home Office is so comfortable it has waived all AWS's security clearances for this contract https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/48741bae-f983-483f-b55c-7cbc1a928b97?origin=SearchResults&p=1 (see technical requirements within the published contract)