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Australia’s top-secret intelligence data will be migrated to the cloud under a $2 billion deal with Amazon.com Inc‘s (NASDAQ:AMZN) cloud service Amazon Web Services. This decision is expected to enhance the country’s defense force interoperability with the United States.
What Happened: The Australian Signals Directorate, the country’s national security agency, will also increase its use of artificial intelligence to analyze data as part of this transition. The plan includes the construction of top-secret data centers in Australia, reported Reuters on Thursday.
Defense Minister Richard Marles stated that the move to cloud services provided by Amazon will provide greater resilience to data supporting the defense force. This will ensure a common computing operating environment with the U.S. defense forces in the future.
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