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Written question asked by Lord Birt (Crossbench) on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 4 November 2025. It was answered by Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Labour) on Tuesday, 4 November 2025 on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Amazon Web Services: Outages

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will review the impact of the failure of supply by Amazon Web Services and identify how best to ensure the future resilience of essential national services.

Answer

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is already working with departments to assess the high-level impacts of the outage, and will use the data gathered to inform future resilience plans for essential national services.

Government is also working to fully understand the broader impact of the outage. Under the Security of Network and Information Systems Regulations (2018) relevant digital service providers - including cloud providers like AWS - are required to have measures in place to boost the physical and cyber security and resilience of the systems they rely on to provide those services. The forthcoming Cyber Security & Resilience Bill will boost those protections and bring managed service providers and critical suppliers into scope.

DSIT will publish the Government Cyber Action Plan this Winter, which sets out a clear approach for Government and the public sector to manage cyber security and resilience incidents.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL11169
Session
2024-26
Related items
Digital Service Providers
Thursday, 11 December 2025
Written questions
House of Lords
Subjects
Amazon Web Services Outages
Link
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