Re:Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies
by corin_ on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @08:21AM
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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
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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.