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The Home Office's AWS contracts and spending

The Home Office's payments to Amazon Web Services nearly tripled from 2020 to 2023, to about £90m a year. A planned £881.6m renewal would more than double that again.

paid to AWS since 2020
£444.6m
paid in the last year
£90.4m
a year under the renewal
£220m+

By Seamus White, founder of BidSkim. Checked against the contracts, notices and Home Office spending data on .

What the Home Office pays AWS

Home Office payments to AWS, and the planned renewal
£0£50m£100m£150m£200m£250m2020: £48.4m£48m20202021: £15.6m£16m20212022: £65.8m£66m20222023: £88.2m£88m20232024: £93.5m£94m20242025: £81.5m£82m20252026 (£51.5m paid January to July, £88.3m projected for the year)£88m2026*Planned renewal, a year: £220.4m£220m2028+

Dashed bars are projections:

  • *2026: £51.5m paid January to July, with the rest of the year at the same monthly rate.
  • The renewal is its £881.6m estimate spread over four years; over two it would be £441m a year.
  • 2020 includes £40m paid up front, which covered bills into 2021. December 2024 alone was £24.4m, which is why 2025 looks lower.
Every payment (CSV)

The contracts

  1. £120m contract, £26.7m a year minimum

    Signed under the government's AWS discount deal. Payments soon ran well above the minimum.

    NoticeContract

  2. £450m contract guarantees nearly all its AWS spend

    The minimum rises 8% a year, from £79m to £92.1m. The contract can't be extended, and the discount deal behind it ran to October 2026.

    NoticeContractDiscount agreement

  3. £881.6m renewal planned

    Starts December 2027 and could run to 2031. That's £220m a year or more, against about £90m now. Market engagement closes 8 December.

    NoticeMarket engagement

  4. Current contract ends

    Nothing has been published to cover the year before the renewal starts.

The confirmed invoice spend

Home Office payments to AWS by calendar year
YearPaid to AWSSource
2020£48.4mHome Office spending, 2020
2021£15.6mHome Office spending, 2021
2022£65.8mHome Office spending, 2022
2023£88.2mHome Office spending, 2023
2024£93.5mHome Office spending, 2024
2025£81.5mHome Office spending, 2025
2026, January to July£51.5mHome Office spending, 2026
  • Every payment to Amazon Web Services in the Home Office's monthly spending files (payments over £25,000). Each counted once, refunds left out.
  • Not included: AWS bought through other suppliers, payments under £25,000, and bodies that publish separately. Payments aren't split by contract.
  • Contract minimums are set in US dollars and converted at each contract's own rate.

Download every payment (CSV), each with the government file it came from. Spending data: Home Office, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Cite this page

White, S. (2026) The Home Office's AWS contracts and spending, 2020 to 2026. BidSkim Research. Available at: https://bidskim.com/research/uk-public-sector-cloud-spend-2022-2026/home-office-aws

Part of UK public sector cloud spend, 2022 to 2026. Questions: [email protected]