Data dive: Mapping UK councils’ hyperscale dependence

Summary

<p>It’s not going to surprise anyone that <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/IT-for-government-and-public-sector">the UK’s 382 councils</a> are heavily dependent on US-based hyperscalers. In this article, we map the exact dependence via the digital perimeter those councils expose – the mail servers, web front ends and cloud endpoints that appear in a public domain name system (DNS) – and find that more than half their routable infrastructure points to Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google, with Microsoft the dominant player.</p> <p>The scan covers 382 local…

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