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Doesn't seem that critical to me. Important, but doesn't pass the sniff test of "is this a matter of national security" that would justify self-hosting ultimately slowing down development and making it more expensive and in effect less feature-rich for taxpayers

EDIT the API docs suggest this is used for sending formal Notifications en-masse rather than mission-critical comms

Yes, personally I don't think it's a good idea to host these things with the US companies. As a citizen I prefer it's in my own country, unless it's really not critical or interesting information / services.

The UK made a different choice.

Is the gov.uk website infrastructure compliant with their own Cyber Essentials requirements? I very much doubt it, as the anti-malware requirements applicable to cloud providers that are not using Windows or MacOS ([1], section 5, subsection "Requirements", option "Application allow listing" on page numbered 14 in the corner) are not implementable as worded. Using Azure instead of AWS could have helped here.

[1] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/files/Cyber-Essentials-Requirements-...

The kinds of messages that get sent via email or text are usually pretty unimportant. Important things tend to be sent via letter or a phone call.

It's not likely to be anything critical.

Gov.Uk Notify does support sending letters (as well as email and SMs/text messages): https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/using-notify

In Norway, I received my residence permit by email, and I mean the official document.

I stressed a bit when after a year I was trying to find the paper letter, until I eventually realized xD

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