Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate

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<p>The Home Office plans to renew its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosting at a potential cost of £881.6m over two years – nearly three times the annual rate of the £450m three-year deal it replaces.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/IT-for-government-and-public-sector">UK public sector</a> is a major buyer of hyperscale cloud. <a href="https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103376-2026">The department’s notice</a>, published on 30 October 2026 through the government’s Find a Tender service, sets an estimated budget of £881,621,007 excluding VAT, or about…

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