Tag: AWS

Microsoft and AWS are hurting cloud competition, UK says

Posted on   |  by Paul Sandle
The dominant position of Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing is harming competition, with their impact exacerbated by technical and commercial barriers to switching, an inquiry group from Britain’s...

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...

Canberra’s third AWS mega-deal lurches to life

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Bureau of Meteorology has inked a $7.4 million cloud service deal with AWS, kicking off the US hyperscaler’s new whole of government arrangement as a review of volume...

Health dept sticks with big three multi-cloud

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal Health department will continue migrating on-premise systems to Amazon Web Services after striking a new $22 million three-year hosting deal with the US hyperscaler through its opaque...

Defence calls in the big guns for cloud migration help

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has contracted AWS and Microsoft to help with its migration and multi-cloud environment, inking fresh limited tender deals with the US hyperscalers worth more than $12 million. The...

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...