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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
by trasz 4y ago
>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).
- jon-wood 4y agoLarge parts of GDS already run on AWS, and I think that may even have been the case for PaaS itself.
- _joel 4y agoI know HMRC went all in on DynamoDB when I was working indirectly for them via a provider. This was in 2017.
- cyberpunk 4y agoNo way they finally moved the NI db off of sybase?
- severalbadgers 4y agoYes, GOV.UK PaaS runs atop AWS.
- angio 4y agoThat'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.
- corrral 4y ago> OG Simpson It's OJ, but thanks for giving me the perfect stage name for my 90s-pop-culture-themed hip-hop act.