I'm not so sure. There's a lot of gov.uk stuff running on non-gvt gear these days thanks to GDS; (aws, skyscape, others on gcloud) -- the problem with how that

I'm not so sure. There's a lot of gov.uk stuff running on non-gvt gear these days thanks to GDS; (aws, skyscape, others on gcloud) -- the problem with how that's gone though is while they're actually running in "the cloud" and tryig to do things more 'modern' the architecture has to be accredited by a bunch of GCHQ folks who apparently are totally insane yet you can never actually talk to. And so you end up only being able to build what looks like a 2000's datacentre arch with 500 /28 vlans and weird IDS appliances and so on, otherwise CESG won't let you hook up to any of the data-sources you probably need. In that style arch, where you can't just provision things and changing even a netmask requires your whole architecture to be re-accredited otherwise you'll lose access to the PSN; what possible benefits are there of running in the cloud? It's more expensive, needs constant oversight from accreditors and generally sucks. The legacy gov DCs are a shitshow too; but that's down to people like capgemini and ibm or whoever and well, fuck them.