Me too. The other argument, of course, is that instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon. Amazon will not pay any tax within the UK, and, moreover, have motives that are arguably aligned to the detriment of the BBC.

I'm slightly sad to read about the change. In many ways, I'd rather the perl duck tape & php approach, running on real computers that the BBC owns. Maybe that officially makes me old.

Agreed, there’s very little discussion of concrete benefits here just vague assertions that this is the best way to do it (except for lighthouse test results which could surely have been fixed much more cheaply by cleaning up the incredibly woolly markup).

Also: they still can’t get two parts of the same page to consistently show the same live football result. This seemed to break about 10 years ago and no one seems to care enough to fix it.

You can submit a freedom of information request https://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/requesting-information .

Asking for a yearly spend on AWS and self managed dc’s since 2014 might help as they only started using AWS around then.