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This undated photo made available by Google shows colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google s data center in The Dalles, Oregon (photo credit: AP/Google, Connie Zhou)
Tech giants Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud services arm of Amazon, have been chosen as the winners of a NIS 4 billion tender ($1.2 billion) to provide cloud-based regional data services to Israel, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.
The two tech giants won against Microsoft, Oracle and IBM. All of the multinationals had offered their services to build data centers and provide cloud services to local public entities, with all of the data secured within the borders of Israel under strict security guidelines.
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Apr. 21, 2021 6:09 PM
Google and Amazon have won the bid to set up and operate Israel’s Project Nimbus - a massive state tender that will see Israel build its own local cloud storage server centers at an investment of roughly 4 billion shekel.
“Amazon (AWS) and Google were selected as the providers awarded the government’s cloud services,” the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday, announcing the result of the tender for Project Nimbus, a multiyear project to migrate Israel s public information technology to the cloud.
The government expects the shift of the entire Israeli state to a new local cloud to lead to increased foreign investments in Israel’s infrastructure and is hoping it will be a boon for the local tech industry.