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Direct UK government spending on AWS up 76% in 1 year (www.theregister.com)

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AWS saw direct sales hit £253 million in fiscal year 2022/23, according to figures from public sector spending researcher Tussell. Although AWS pocketed the largest increase among revenue raked in by strategic suppliers to UK government, it was a long way behind the leaders, largely construction and defense firms. Kier, for example, accrued £1.4 billion in revenue over the same period.

The leading tech supplier was Capital, whose revenue remained flat at £923 million. Atos was the second tech supplier, with £850 million, up 21 percent on the previous year.

Oracle and Microsoft also took a dramatically bigger slice of direct revenue from the government. The Redmond software giant won £114 million in direct revenue, up 36 percent, while Big Red got £290 million revenue, up 14 percent.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Cloud giant AWS collected a staggering 76 percent more direct public sector revenue from the UK government in the past financial year.

The cloud infrastructure and hosting titan saw direct sales hit £253 million in fiscal year 2022/23, according to figures from public sector spending researcher Tussell.

Although AWS pocketed the largest increase among revenue raked in by strategic suppliers to UK government, it was a long way behind the leaders, largely construction and defense firms.

Framework agreements — which handle some pre-procurement paper pushing, suggest indicative spending and offer price discounts — are a popular vehicle for UK public sector buyers.

AWS has made inroads into the UK public sector market as central and local government continue their push to transition workloads to the cloud.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to carry out an investigation into public cloud infrastructure services following an earlier report from telecoms regulator Ofcom.

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