Defence will spend almost $100 million a year for the next five years on Microsoft Azure under a new cloud services deal that deepens the tech giant’s long-running ties with the department.
The bumper contract, signed through the whole-of-government volume sourcing arrangement with exclusive licence reseller Data#3, is Microsoft’s largest ever deal with Defence, dwarfing all of its previous deals.
It follows a series of smaller contracts with Microsoft and rival Amazon Web Services in the first half of this year as part of a multi-year program to migrate military workloads and data from on-premise to a multi-cloud environment.
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