Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Internet

(asked on 2nd March 2018) - View Source
Questioner
James Gray Portrait
James Gray
(Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs; and what the value of those contracts was in each of the last three years.

Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 7th March 2018

a) Core Defra currently has two direct contracts with ‘public cloud-hosting’ providers:

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) from January 2017

  • Microsoft Azure from July 2017 via Defra’s Microsoft Enterprise Licence Agreement

The expenditure is as follows:

  • AWS - £35,561.96 (2017/2018)

  • Microsoft Azure – Zero spend to date

b) None

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