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heh.

The UK government has a lot of infra based on Azure. The MOD and NHS for starters.

Smooth. Very smooth. Another indicator that the rabid, vulgar libertarians in the Brexiteer ranks are more than happy to use Brexit to strain public services more in order to justify private services.

Man oh man am I glad to be paid in dollars working remotely for a US company right now.

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And imagine the inducements they must have offered MS to build a datacenter here.

UK.gov actually has a semi-inhouse cloud called Crown Hosting that might win new business from Azure. They don't offer the functionality needed to produce an infrastructure that adapts to load but that doesn't matter - gov clients don't really get cloud and typically want static computer systems duplicating an on prem infrastructure without the support costs.

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