Written questions

Amazon Web Services: Outages

Commons · Question 84721 · Tabled 23 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 31 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

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

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 31 Oct 2025

DSIT 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...