The UK government has launched an investigation after a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US East region caused widespread downtime for UK-based services, including financial, logistics, and public platforms. Ministers are demanding answers on why critical UK systems rely on overseas infrastructure. The Cabinet Office’s Cyber Security Centre is reviewing contingency plans, warning the incident raises “serious questions about sovereign digital resilience” and the nation’s dependency on US cloud providers.
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