Amidst Mounting Criticism, Home Office Signs a £450 Million Cloud contract with AWS

The £450,281,369 three-year contract was signed on December 1st and is part of the G-Cloud 13 architecture.

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The two parties engaged into a £100 million contract in 2020, and that contract is about to expire.

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This acquisition comes at a critical juncture for AWS, as the UK competition authorities are stepping up their investigations into Microsoft and Amazon

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AWS further cemented its position in the UK public sector earlier this year when it signed a £20.8 million.

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The deal encompassed cloud hosting, "bring-your-own-licence" software management services

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