The big cloud debate: US giants vs UK providers

Hannah Breeze
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Global cloud giants have gone to great efforts to talk up their UK credentials in recent months, but British provider UKCloud has called them out, questioning the investments and their wider impact on the economy. Hannah Breeze navigates the debate

As far as global giants Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) appear to be concerned, the UK is the place to be. Whereas in years gone by, UK customers would have counted themselves lucky to have...

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