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Oracle eyes Canberra’s Secret cloud market

US cloud giant Oracle has unveiled a new physically isolated cloud region in Canberra it says goes further than its competitors are willing to go and could one day...

AWS to invest $13.2bn in Australian cloud infrastructure

4 April 2023 | by Brandon How

Amazon Web Services is planning to invest $13.2 billion into its two Australian data centre regions over the next five years, as the federal government considers the need for...

Cloud giants, locals divided over Australia’s regulatory settings

29 March 2023 | by Justin Hendry

AWS and Microsoft have dismissed the need for further regulation in Australia, arguing that their platforms are already subject to a host of legislative and policy frameworks, as the...

Accenture lands $14m to prep Defence for ‘secret’ cloud

17 March 2023 | by Justin Hendry

Defence will pay Accenture more than $14 million over the next year to stand up a cloud capability that will provide the guardrails for multi-vendor hosting, as the department...

$16bn GDP boost expected from second AWS cloud region

24 January 2023 | by Justin Hendry

Amazon Web Services has launched its second Australian cloud infrastructure region more than a decade after its first, which is expected to generate an estimated $16 billion lift to...

New cyber strategy to consider data localisation rules: O’Neil

8 December 2022 | by Brandon How

Home Affairs and Cybersecurity minister Clare O’Neil is considering local data storage requirements in Australia to improve the security of sensitive data, as the government begins work on a...

Defence launches new ICT, cybersecurity plans

31 August 2022 | by Justin Hendry

The Department of Defence has launched a new ICT strategy that recognises the criticality of technology for warfighting capability in an increasingly networked world. It has also used the...

A cloud hangs over Amazon data certification

7 October 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

The world’s biggest cloud company Amazon Web Services has been certified under the federal government’s data sovereignty scheme despite its links to a controversial Chinese-owned data centre and the...

Only three vendors cleared for sensitive gov’t data

18 August 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

The federal government has tightened sovereignty requirements for data hosting vendors and service providers due to security and supply chain concerns.

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