Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been awarded a £94 million ($119.4m) cloud hosting contract by the UK Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
The deal was signed on December 1, 2023, and will run for three years, ending in November 2026.
The cloud hosting contract is part of the recently confirmed second iteration of the discount scheme "One Government Value Agreement (OGVA)," which was first signed in 2020 between AWS and the Crown Commercial Service and saw the cloud provider offering public sector clients a baseline discount of 18 percent in return for signing three-year contracts.
DWP has been a customer of AWS since 2016. Then, at the time of the first iteration of OGVA, DWP signed a three-year hosting agreement with AWS valued at £57m ($72.39m), representing a value increase of £37m ($47m) for the 2023 deal.
Last month the UK's Home office signed a similar deal with AWS valued at £450m ($568.64m). Towards the beginning of 2023, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs signed a £20.8 million (~$25m) with AWS which would see the latter handling Defra's cloud hosting as well as its ‘bring-your-own-license’ software management service.
