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More concerning is the fact that the UK government is happy to store UK data in the US with AWS under its "G-cloud" scheme. At least the US guys have picked a "
by amaccuish 8y ago
More concerning is the fact that the UK government is happy to store UK data in the US with AWS under its "G-cloud" scheme. At least the US guys have picked a "local" vendor.
- danpalmer 8y agoG-cloud is a pretty broad scheme that covers all sorts of computing services and consulting at all levels of secrecy. It's a marketplace with many different uses. If you do a search with, for example, a minimum provider staff security clearance of DV (which is pretty high, would apply to many matters of national security), all the major cloud providers disappear from the results, and you get smaller companies based in the UK, who use UK datacenters, and who are seemingly adding their own layers of encryption on top.
- jstanley 8y agoIs the interface for such a search publicly accessible?
- culturestate 8y agoThis[1] is the first Google result for "g cloud provider search" - I believe it's what GP is referencing. 1. https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/buyers/direct-award/g-cloud/start https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/buyers/direct-...
- jstanley 8y agoNeat, thanks!
- danpalmer 8y agoCorrect. Again, this is all publicly accessible because 99% of the use is not the intelligence services or military, it's instead random government departments, local government offices, hospitals, doctors surgeries, etc. This is designed to replace most computing purchasing in the UK public sector.
- deadbunny 8y agoHaving worked in multiple gov department I can assure you different types of data have different types of restriction on where they are stored.