[hkt]

I remember the sad case of DataCentred:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/datacentred-is-sh...

tl;dr even after getting a big public sector contract, a UK based cloud provider was killed off after scaling to meet demand which was then withdrawn. Attaining - and keeping - scale is extremely difficult. And that was just IaaS provision.

[nly]

If you're scaling your whole business for one customer based on one contract then you better be sure you can either scale down again, or the contract has safeguards in it to stop a rugpull.

[hkt]

You're not wrong, but the public sector should probably not be pulling the rug out from underneath anyone.