Re:Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS
by angio on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:26AM
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That's a feature. The UK can ask the US to request data to AWS about UK citizens without breaking any law about spying on UK citizens. Now they can filter all citizens that ticked "muslim" or "arab" in one of the many gov forms, cross reference with fb/twitter/insta for signs of extremism and flag them as suspicious individuals.
Re:Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS
by jon-wood on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:36AM
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Large parts of GDS already run on AWS, and I think that may even have been the case for PaaS itself.
Re:Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS
by _joel on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:46AM
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I know HMRC went all in on DynamoDB when I was working indirectly for them via a provider. This was in 2017.
Re:Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS
by cyberpunk on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:59AM
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No way they finally moved the NI db off of sybase?
Re:Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS
by severalbadgers on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:52AM
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Yes, GOV.UK PaaS runs atop AWS.
So now UK citizens are going to be forced to use services from a country known for largely non-working legal system (where being provably innocent is not enough to call off execution, see Scalia; where a monetary fine is an adequate sentence for premeditated murder, see OG Simpson, not to mention de facto legal immunity for cops committing crimes on duty) and for droning random civilians with impunity (see Hague Invasion Act).