Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 84721
Amazon Web Services: Outages
Tabled: 23 October 2025
Answered: 31 October 2025
Question
Martin Wrigley
Liberal Democrat — Newton Abbot
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the outage of Amazon Web Services in October 2025 on the technology sector.
Answer
Kanishka NarayanDSIT has communicated with AWS extensively throughout and in the immediate aftermath of the outage, to understand the situation and to ensure recovery was underway. All services have since been restored and we remain in regular contact with AWS.We continu...
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