Govt systems spared from AWS outage


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Australian government technology systems have evaded the global outage at Amazon Web Services, with crucial weather forecasting and citizen services like myGov staying online, agencies have confirmed.

The government systems stayed up despite a heavy and growing reliance on the US hyperscaler, which this week inflicted outages on its customers around the world — and in turn the customers of Australian tech firms like Atlassian and Canva.

But AWS’ Australian …

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