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by arpinum 980 days ago
gov.uk is not a monolith, different departments can make different decisions. There is no mandate for AWS containers or Fastly CDN.
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They have to provision from a market place of approve service though right?
They tend to use the tools provided by Government Digital Services.
Yes, this is the point and the reason it's so good. Centralization and standardization. I'm so glad that my country (Turkey) has made big leaps in centralization of digital services in the recent years with E-Government platform. I even recently wrote the Presidency Public Communcations Center, suggesting every citizen should have a government-issued email address and that an email account must be a right. E-mail is a necessity at this point and it's unacceptable that anyone can lose access to their email account just because Google's ML models decided he's a bot. The government could easily verify every real citizen.