UK government mandated a 'why not cloud' requirement for tech procurements
Teresa Carlson · a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:45
Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, explains how international governments, specifically the UK under CTO Liam Maxwell, instituted cloud-first policies.
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“Liam Maxwell, who's the CTO of the UK government, sort of started the same kind of trend in the UK where he said, we are spending way too much money on tech and not getting the benefits. They've created their own digital service, and they're starting to put also policies and mandates in place that says, wait a minute, don't go out and buy like a bunch of servers when you can go to cloud. Show me why you can't use cloud. New procurements have to go through this group to say, why not cloud?”
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