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>The big cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP and others) have upped their game

So now UK citizens are going to be forced to use services from a country known for largely non-working legal system (where being provably innocent is not enough to call off execution, see Scalia; where a monetary fine is an adequate sentence for premeditated murder, see OG Simpson, not to mention de facto legal immunity for cops committing crimes on duty) and for droning random civilians with impunity (see Hague Invasion Act).



That's a feature. The UK can ask the US to request data to AWS about UK citizens without breaking any law about spying on UK citizens. Now they can filter all citizens that ticked "muslim" or "arab" in one of the many gov forms, cross reference with fb/twitter/insta for signs of extremism and flag them as suspicious individuals.


Large parts of GDS already run on AWS, and I think that may even have been the case for PaaS itself.


I know HMRC went all in on DynamoDB when I was working indirectly for them via a provider. This was in 2017.


No way they finally moved the NI db off of sybase?


Yes, GOV.UK PaaS runs atop AWS.


> OG Simpson

It's OJ, but thanks for giving me the perfect stage name for my 90s-pop-culture-themed hip-hop act.




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