Tag: Amazon Web Services

AWS cranks $20b into Australian AI data centre push

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Amazon Web Services says it will spend $20 billion in Australia over the next five years on business operations, including on a significant expansion of its data centre infrastructure....

AWS contracts near $300m after federal mega-deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal government agencies have struck contracts worth almost $300 million with Amazon Web Services following the arrival of the renegotiated whole of government agreement. Amid transparency concerns over the...

News Wrap: Tim Ayres is off to a running start

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Just a week after his appointment as the new Minister for Industry and Innovation, Tim Ayres took to the stage this week to set out his agenda – and...

DTA won’t reveal true cost of Canberra’s AWS mega-deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A federal government decision to withhold the cost of its latest three-year cloud mega-deal with Amazon Web Services has sparked transparency concerns and criticism that it has been strong-armed...

Whole-of-govt tech mega-deals review gets underway

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has opened the consultation process for an independent review of its seven technology mega-deals, collectively worth more than a billion dollars each year. The review of...

Health re-ups with Salesforce for vaccine data

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Health department has signed up for another year of Salesforce to help manage its COVID-19 vaccine data, after tightening assurance controls to verify its technology suppliers’ data security...

Defence brews up $16m mystery cloud platform

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has inked its biggest cloud deal with Amazon Web Services to build a new mystery platform on the American hyperscaler’s infrastructure. The department declined to say exactly what...

Australia’s Top Secret cloud and the battle for sovereignty

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...