Australia’s government wants help from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a super top-secret cloud for its law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The country’s leaders say the new AWS platform will be “purpose-built for Australia’s Defence and National Intelligence Community agencies to securely host our country’s most sensitive information.”
The project will apparently cost AUD$2 billion ($1.35 billion) over a period of ten years.
Super secret cloud announcement
The Australian government says the project is expected to “improve our ability to securely share and analyze our nation’s most classified data at speed and at scale, and provides opportunities to harness leading technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
Australia has also touted the…