DG 2020 - 16

I'm sure it was all above board. The Land Registry has placed a £4.8m contract with cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services. Amazon UK boss Doug Gurr is a non-executive director of The Land Registry.

Mr Gurr is thought to be a candidate for the upcoming DG vacancy at the BBC. The BBC is a big customer of AWS, for a range of applications that keep the iPlayer, BBC Sounds and BBC Online in general, functioning. In December 2019, a new Amazon product won this gushing endorsement from BBC Chief Technology Officer, Matthew Postgate:

"As a global media organization, we manage petabytes of video and run a live operation - 24 hours a day.Amazon CodeGuru, along with other dev tools that our team uses, will help ensure we continue to provide our audience with robust, reliable services – and spot any issues before they happen. It will also help us gain insights into how services interact with the AWS Platform, allowing teams to refactor and optimize their code to give people the service they expect from the BBC."