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Amazon Web Services: Outages

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she had made of the potential impact of the Amazon Web Services outage in October 2025 on the economy.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 23 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 27 Oct 2025
Answer: 31 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she had made of the potential impact of the Amazon Web Services outage in October 2025 on the economy.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
HM Treasury has a comprehensive framework for the assessment and management of current and potential risks to the economy, including those posed by digital infrastructure disruptions. The framework involves systematic monitoring through internal risk moni...

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