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Amazon Web Services: Outages

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 31 October 2025UIN 84722

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the outage of Amazon Web Services in October 2025 on Government web services.

Answered by Ian Murray

I refer the hon. Member for Newton Abbot to the answer given on 27 October 2025 to Question 83776.

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