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I wish they would compare the costs switching from their self-hosted system to a cloud based system running on AWS.

• tomgp 6y ago
  Agreed, there’s very little discussion of concrete benefits here just vague assertions that this is the best way to do it (except for lighthouse test results which could surely have been fixed much more cheaply by cleaning up the incredibly woolly markup). Also: they still can’t get two parts of the same page to consistently show the same live football result. This seemed to break about 10 years ago and no one seems to care enough to fix it.
• azalemeth 6y ago
  Me too. The other argument, of course, is that instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon. Amazon will not pay any tax within the UK, and, moreover, have motives that are arguably aligned to the detriment of the BBC. I'm slightly sad to read about the change. In many ways, I'd rather the perl duck tape & php approach, running on real computers that the BBC owns. Maybe that officially makes me old.
  • ti_ranger 6y ago
    > instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon. You imply that Amazon/AWS doesn't employ any staff in the UK, which is wrong. > Amazon will not pay any tax within the UK Amazon must certainly pay taxes in the UK, or at least the tax ends up being paid on Amazon share price increases from employees share vesting.
• tiew9Vii 6y ago
  You can submit a freedom of information request https://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/requesting-information https://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/requesting-information . Asking for a yearly spend on AWS and self managed dc’s since 2014 might help as they only started using AWS around then.
  • iso1631 6y ago
    Worth a go, I suspect that will be deemed commercially sensitive though.