- Organisation
- News UK
- Predecessor
- Amazon Redshift data warehouse and associated data pipelines
- Destination
- Google BigQuery with Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Compute Engine and App Engine
- Workload
- a bounded 20-terabyte data warehouse and approximately 200 additional data pipelines supporting UK and Ireland media analytics
- Stage
- completed
- Retirement status
- The official Google Cloud source supports completion of the named 20-terabyte Redshift-to-BigQuery migration and associated pipeline scope. It does not establish migration or retirement of every News UK data platform, source system or analytics workload.
- Confidence
- High
- Next trigger
- A dated cutover, formal retirement statement or material later implementation milestone.
Programme context
News UK completed a two-phase, 15-month migration of a bounded 20-terabyte warehouse from Amazon Redshift to Google BigQuery, including approximately 200 additional pipelines and business signoff.
Why this matters: This record identifies a named Irish or UK organisation, a bounded predecessor state, a destination platform, an affected workload and a source-stated operational stage.
Migration timeline
| Date or stage | Milestone | What changed | Evidence status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source publication date not stated | completed | Google Cloud states that News UK completed the two-phase warehouse migration over 15 months. | Confirmed |
Workload migration matrix
| Workload | Predecessor | Destination | Status by 28 Jul 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| a bounded 20-terabyte data warehouse and approximately 200 additional data pipelines supporting UK and Ireland media analytics | Amazon Redshift data warehouse and associated data pipelines | Google BigQuery with Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Compute Engine and App Engine | completed |
Implementation and architecture
- BigQuery is the destination cloud data warehouse.
- Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Dataflow and Pub/Sub support orchestration and data movement.
- Compute Engine and App Engine are named within the resulting platform architecture.
Known unknowns and contradictions
- The customer-story page does not state its publication date.
- The source does not enumerate every retained warehouse, source system or pipeline.
- The claim is bounded to the named warehouse and approximately 200 additional pipelines.
No missing fact is inferred to broaden the source-supported platform-change claim.
PlatformTrace analysis
The official Google Cloud source supports completion of the named 20-terabyte Redshift-to-BigQuery migration and associated pipeline scope. It does not establish migration or retirement of every News UK data platform, source system or analytics workload.
Performance, cost, uptime and operational outcomes remain attributed source claims unless independently stated otherwise.
Evidence ledger
- News UK — Google Cloud customer story, publication date not stated
Names News UK’s UK and Ireland business, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, a two-phase 15-month migration, 20 terabytes, approximately 200 additional pipelines, business signoff and the named Google Cloud services.
Approval: Issue #47 standing publication authority and the corrected 28 July 2026 Lane 3 central filter.
Corrections and updates
28 July 2026 — Initial long-form Verified dossier published from the manual Lane 3 Ireland/UK intake and corrected central filter. Later milestones will be appended rather than silently replacing this state.