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News - Government & Military, AWS
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Oregon city declares state of emergency over lost data center revenue amid state-wide ban
City of Umatilla was relying on tax revenues due to come in from Sabey and Amazon
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UK council launches heat network feasibility study for proposed data centers near Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire
Will be undertaken by Nordic Energy, with results published in March of next year
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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Y Combinator-backed Impact Drones to offer missile-intercepting drone service for data centers and grid operators
Following several strikes on data centers in US-Israel and Iran conflict
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AWS pulls out of planned data center campus next to Maryland nuclear plant
Company withdraws plans for Calvert Technology Center
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Idaho National Laboratory, Nvidia, AWS launch Prometheus project under Genesis Mission
Seeks to expedite advanced nuclear development through AI
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AWS launches Secret Cloud for Industry
Gives US defense contractors secure access to cloud
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AWS and Anduril partner on Edge cloud offering for national security and defense
Anduril introduces Menace-I with AWS Outposts
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Homeland Security signs $2.6bn contract with AWS
Will run up to five years
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Iowa state plans cloud migration, claims will save $525m over next decade
Will partner with AWS and Cognizant on migration
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Finland's Ministry of Justice delays plans for cloud migration
Election platform will now be deployed in the cloud after next year's general election
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AWS wins UK's HMRC data center services contract after Fujitsu exit
AWS will help the department to exit three Fujitsu data centers in the UK
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Israel and US bomb data centers in Tehran, following Iran's drone strikes on AWS
As data centers increasingly become targets in war
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Indian gov't tech department to deploy AWS Outposts for hybrid cloud infrastructure
Works with AWS and Yotta Data Services on project
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AWS wins $580m contract from US Air Force
Part of Air Force's Cloud One Program
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NASA migrates Earth Science data archives to the cloud
Migration expected to continue through to end of 2026
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AWS to spend $50bn expanding AI and HPC capacity for US government
Will see nearly 1.3GW of capacity added across Top Secret, Secret, and US GovCloud regions
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AWS set to win UK's HMRC £500m data center exit contract - report
Company is last one standing in the race
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AWS launches second "Secret Region" for classified workloads in the US
Secret Regions use data centers and network architecture in compliance Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) requirements
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Victorian government joins Aussie Whole-of-Government Agreement with AWS
Following AWS' $13bn commitment to invest in Australia
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AWS signs deal with US gov't to provide up to $1bn in cloud discounts
Agreement falls under OneGov framework
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AWS to launch second "secret" cloud region for federal customers in the US
The "secret" is out
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Aussie Digital Transformation Agency signs three-year deal with AWS
Builds on 2019 agreement
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Amazon layoffs in Canada sees gov't threaten to "review" relationship with company
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry requests CEO Andy Jassy "reconsider"
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UK Crown Commercial Service increased cloud hosting deal with AWS by 89% mid-contract
Questions raised about why the department didn't re-tender
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Amazon considers billion-dollar investment in Anthropic
Also teams up with Anthropic and Palantir to provide AI to US Defense Agencies
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US Department of Defense awards AWS $7.2m contract for virtual private cloud pilot
Cloud giant to create a "zero trust pilot" virtual private cloud for defense agency
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AWS wins $1.4m cloud contract with UK Health and Care institute
Awarded via G-Cloud 13 Framework Agreement