AWS to build govt’s $2bn Top Secret cloud


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The Commonwealth’s most sensitive data will be stored across Amazon Web Services facilities and shared with Defence and national intelligence agencies through a new Top Secret Cloud from 2027.

The Albanese government announced the $2 billion project on Thursday after years of design and a market testing process that saw AWS’s top rival sensationally walk away from the project in 2022.

Amazon will run the Top Secret Cloud at purpose …

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