Amazon’s new contract to host top-secret intelligence for UK spy agencies must be scrutinised by parliament to ensure risks over data access, privacy, and sovereignty are being mitigated, cyber security experts have warned.
The deal between GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 and AWS, Amazon’s cloud arm — estimated to be worth £500m to £1bn over a decade — was revealed by the Financial Times earlier this week. Just as news of the contract became public, parliament’s intelligence and security committee announced it was embarking on an inquiry into cloud technologies.
The committee has declined to comment on the remit of its investigation or what has prompted the probe.