CTP designation gives regulators a direct line to four hyperscalers. It does nothing for your obligation to know what you signed with them.

On 13 July 2026, the Bank of England, PRA, and FCA started overseeing Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle directly. HM Treasury has said the list will grow. What hasn't changed: firms still have to produce a specific answer on exit clauses, notice periods, and data portability the moment a regulator, auditor, or board asks. If that answer sits scattered across a master agreement and a hundred-plus order schedules, someone is reading documents from scratch to construct it. CTP designation didn't create that problem. It just made it visible.