Australia’s Top Secret cloud and the battle for sovereignty


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Australia’s $2 billion Top Secret cloud is sorely needed by defence and intelligence agencies that have fallen years behind the private sector, allies and some adversaries. But the government’s decision to go with a single market leading US vendor over local providers while extolling sovereignty has raised difficult questions.

As the dust settles on last year’s landmark deal with Amazon Web Services, InnovationAus.com can reveal local suppliers will get a …

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