The Commonwealth’s most sensitive data will be stored across Amazon Web Services facilities and shared with Defence and national intelligence agencies through a new Top Secret Cloud from 2027.
The Albanese government announced the $2 billion project on Thursday after years of design and a market testing process that saw AWS’s top rival sensationally walk away from the project in 2022.
Amazon will run the Top Secret Cloud at purpose built facilities in undisclosed locations and offer a variety of cloud services like artificial intelligence and machine learning under the deal.
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