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Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 05.11.2026

The Home Office has announced plans to renew AWS cloud hosting at a cost of £881.6m over two years

UK government ‘house of cards’ heavily reliant on US AI models

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 05.11.2026

US tech suppliers provide the artificial intelligence models behind most tools deployed by UK central government

How to avoid blowing your AI budget

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 05.11.2026

We investigate what IT decision-makers can do to maximise their return on AI investment

SailPoint: Anarchy reigns over enterprise agentic AI

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 05.11.2026

SailPoint research has found 89% of EMEA enterprises deploy AI agents, but 99% lack the identity security tools to govern them

OECD: AI compute now a strategic asset as UK bets £2bn

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 05.11.2026

Venture capital for artificial intelligence firms in IT infrastructure and hosting rose from $54.5bn to $123.9bn, while the OECD says compute now shapes which countries can build advanced AI

Capita last UK firm among government strategic tech suppliers

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 04.11.2026

The outsourcer is the only UK-headquartered tech firm among the government’s strategic suppliers, as Capgemini leads 2025/26 spending at £940m of a total £5.48bn

Mastercard meets ‘responsibility’ through SME cyber security training

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 04.11.2026

Card giant is offering free cyber security training to millions of SMEs in the UK through its SME Academy

The invisible maths behind cloud carbon accounting

Published in Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate on 04.11.2026

Hypervisor abstraction and market-based accounting conceal cloud emissions. Operational sustainability requires raw telemetry, real-time grid data, and hardware lifecycle tracking