[ClassicOrgin]

Minor detail but did anyone else notice they are using eu-west-1? Kind of weird for the UK to be hosting there sites in another country (Ireland). I'm sure this isn't super sensitive data but still.

[callalex]

It made a lot more sense before…you know…the thing that made no sense.

[esskay]

They've been on AWS since before eu-west-2 was added, it's still not at the scale of eu-west-1. Capacity issues are still a thing (but getting much better), and only recently have they become pretty much feature parallel.

[lozenge]

The London AWS region was missing a lot of features for a long time. It's easier to just go with a big region.

[justinclift]

"Lets go with the easier approach" is a bit worrying when it means potentially breaking security assumptions / legal assurances.

Though I guess it could be explained away by having something in the website's "Terms and Conditions for use". ;)

[juggertao]

It's a gov website. What are they going to do, sue themselves?

[another2another]

Have a public enquiry, with lots of tea.

[kitd]

I think one of the bits of carry-over legislation in the Withdrawal Agreement after Brexit was the UK continuing to comply with GDPR. So using an Irish DC is still ok.