United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 84777
Amazon Web Services: Outages
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23 October 2025
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29 October 2025 · Answer
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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what government services faced disruption as a result of the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday 20 October; and what assessment her Department plans to make of the cost to the economy
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23 October 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what government services faced disruption as a result of the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday 20 October; and what assessment her Department plans to make of the cost to the economy
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29 October 2025
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Many government departments use AWS services, and we are aware that the Home Office, DVLA, DWP and HMRC all experienced impacts as a result of the outage on Monday 20 October.The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is working with bot...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-10-23/84777
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1844561
- uk · wq-1844561 · source updated 29 October 2025