Big Sheep Quiz 2024- Answers Are All Uk,...
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The Government are giving them £1Billion to host our secret services’ Cloud data. Not sure if it was a competitive tender, or whether Priti read a good review and made the order.
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we've got sovereignty, we can hand our secrets to anyone we like. The next generation Snowdens will pass them on to the world.
12:02 Wed 27th Oct 2021
Hmm, I am tending to agree with Gromit on parts of this.
AWS does not keep the data in the UK, it quite clearly states backups will be in the USA. Certain types of data should not be kept on foreign soil.
I worked at a UK Bank where we moved from AWS to Azure partly because of this. Another reason was that Azure was a heck of a lot cheaper plus being a platinum customer meant we good help.
//Who would you give the contract to//
Ideally the Home Office should have its own cloud. Its big enough and has a large enough budget. However with incompetence abounding and the inability to implement the simplest IT systems from the Civil Service, even when well over funded, I would opt for Azure.
AWS does not keep the data in the UK, it quite clearly states backups will be in the USA. Certain types of data should not be kept on foreign soil.
I worked at a UK Bank where we moved from AWS to Azure partly because of this. Another reason was that Azure was a heck of a lot cheaper plus being a platinum customer meant we good help.
//Who would you give the contract to//
Ideally the Home Office should have its own cloud. Its big enough and has a large enough budget. However with incompetence abounding and the inability to implement the simplest IT systems from the Civil Service, even when well over funded, I would opt for Azure.
notoriously anti-British though I am, the notion of storing British secrets in the USA leaves me scratching my head the same way getting Chinese companies to build British nuclear plants does: why are they doing this?? Surely Britain is capable of handling these vital security-related matters itself?
//Azure is Microsoft.
Not sure how they are any better than Amazon. //
Didnt read my post then.
Azure keeps the Data in the UK on UK South and UK West (Cardiff area)
In addition Azure is miles cheaper, not just marginally but miles ahead. I've set up many servers in Azure and in AWS, I do know what I am talking about and yes clearly I know its Microsoft or I wouldn't have referred to being a platinum partner!
Not sure how they are any better than Amazon. //
Didnt read my post then.
Azure keeps the Data in the UK on UK South and UK West (Cardiff area)
In addition Azure is miles cheaper, not just marginally but miles ahead. I've set up many servers in Azure and in AWS, I do know what I am talking about and yes clearly I know its Microsoft or I wouldn't have referred to being a platinum partner!
AWS is a bit more than a storage medium - if you want it to be.
It's not clear how the Government intend to use it (I doubt they know themselves it probably just seems like a good idea) but you can choose anything from IaaS, PaaS to SaaS. I f you want to do it then you can run your whole system on it, you dont need any data systems of your own.
It's not clear how the Government intend to use it (I doubt they know themselves it probably just seems like a good idea) but you can choose anything from IaaS, PaaS to SaaS. I f you want to do it then you can run your whole system on it, you dont need any data systems of your own.
//They may have the data, gawd knows where but they can't read it.//
Unfortunately being the USA its a little more complex than that
From AWS:
Disclosure of customer content: We will not disclose customer content unless we're required to do so to comply with the law or a binding order of a government body. If a governmental body sends AWS a demand for customer content, we will attempt to redirect the governmental body to request that data directly from the customer. If compelled to disclose customer content to a government body, we will give customers reasonable notice of the demand to allow the customer to seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy unless AWS is legally prohibited from doing so.
Unfortunately being the USA its a little more complex than that
From AWS:
Disclosure of customer content: We will not disclose customer content unless we're required to do so to comply with the law or a binding order of a government body. If a governmental body sends AWS a demand for customer content, we will attempt to redirect the governmental body to request that data directly from the customer. If compelled to disclose customer content to a government body, we will give customers reasonable notice of the demand to allow the customer to seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy unless AWS is legally prohibited from doing so.
