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It made a lot more sense before…you know…the thing that made no sense.

They've been on AWS since before eu-west-2 was added, it's still not at the scale of eu-west-1. Capacity issues are still a thing (but getting much better), and only recently have they become pretty much feature parallel.

The London AWS region was missing a lot of features for a long time. It's easier to just go with a big region.

"Lets go with the easier approach" is a bit worrying when it means potentially breaking security assumptions / legal assurances.

Though I guess it could be explained away by having something in the website's "Terms and Conditions for use". ;)

It's a gov website. What are they going to do, sue themselves?

Have a public enquiry, with lots of tea.

I think one of the bits of carry-over legislation in the Withdrawal Agreement after Brexit was the UK continuing to comply with GDPR. So using an Irish DC is still ok.