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Google and Amazon signed a cloud service construction contract in Israel worth US$1 billion

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The Israeli government said on Monday that it has signed a project agreement worth more than $1 billion with Amazon’s cloud services department AWS and Google to provide cloud service construction for the country’s public sector and military.

A month ago, AWS and Google defeated Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM to win the bid for the project. Officials from the Israeli Ministry of Finance said that the migration of data to the cloud is expected to take place in about two months.

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The project is called Nimbus, and it is implemented in four phases, namely procurement of equipment and construction of cloud infrastructure, government formulation of policies to migrate data to the cloud, data integration and migration, and control and optimization of cloud computing activities.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Finance, Nimbus is a multi-year project aimed at providing comprehensive cloud computing service solutions for the government, defense systems, and other economic groups.

The ministry pointed out that the adoption of cloud service solutions will make a major change in the services of the Israeli government. It will use the advantages of cloud computing technology to improve services to citizens and increase economic efficiency. And, it will also help promote Israeli innovation and encourage the creation of an ecosystem-based on cloud technology.


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