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Re:Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies by thmcmahon on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @08:14PM (#2893443)
As someone who works in Government in Australia in a non-IT area this is a huge deal.

So much of what we do is simple database - form type applications. To be able to develop these in a more agile, less pay IBM a billion dollars type way, will revolutionise IT in Government.

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Re:Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies by canadiansaur on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @01:02AM (#2894176)
If you work for the government in Australia, you probably want the OPPOSITE of what this is - cloud servers hosted entirely outside the USA. If the servers are located in the US, they are potentially subject to the US patriot act, and i doubt that would pass Australian government privacy regulations
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Re:Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies by corin_ on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @08:21AM (#2895010)
I'm pretty sure he was simply using his position as the background to why he has that opinion, not suggesting that non-US governments will look to use it.
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Re:Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies by thmcmahon on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @08:29AM (#2895033)
That's right. Sorry should've made that clearer.

Obviously for the Australian government we would need an Australian version of this or a similar service.

Government IT procurement for fairly trivial systems cost unbelievable amounts of money. A lot of this is due to an overly rigid scoping and dev process.

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