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Since its launch in March 2017, HMRCs online IR35 status checker tool has come under fierce criticism and scrutiny, only exacerbated in recent weeks by the disclosure it has not been updated in five years.

Amazon Web Services’ hold on the UK public sector continues to tighten, following the revelation that on a single day in late 2023 it clinched contracts worth £894m with three central government departments.

The Home Offices latest three-year contract with AWS is valued at nearly half a billion pounds, but questions are emerging about the contents of the contract and how it has been arranged

Less than a month after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of Amazon Web Services (AWS) preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services.

With AWS and Microsoft both the focus of an antitrust probe by the UK competition watchdog, the government is being urged to reconsider the renewal of its preferential pricing deals with both firms until the investigation is concluded.

In this guest post, Owen Sayers, an enterprise security architect with Secon Solutions, who has 25 years’ experience working within the UKs internet security framework, sets out the areas where he ...