Israel signs cloud services deal with Amazon, Google

JERUSALEM: Israel’s government said on Monday it had signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military.

A month ago, AWS and Google won a tender, beating out Microsoft, Oracle and IBM for the four phase project known as “Nimbus”.

Finance Ministry officials said they expected to start moving data to the cloud in about two months, but it will not be a centralised system since there are two providers, while some data will not be on the cloud.