The Australian Ministry of Defense has signed a contract of $ 495 million ($ 324.71 million) with Microsoft to use its cloud computer services.
As reported by ITNEWS, the contract begins on September 1, 2025 and replaces a previously three -year contract over $ 107 million ($ 70.2 million), which expired on June 30th.
As part of the contract, Microsoft Azure will underpin the platform for the Department of Defense Corporation, covers logistics, maintenance, finance and procurement.
The department has also signed the latest contracts with other technology providers, including $ 59 million ($ 38.7 million) for Citrix Services over three years and 11 million Au $ ($ 7.2 million) for a one-year contract with Oracle.
The business suggests that the Ministry of Defense has a large ongoing project with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to maintain a multi-cloud strategy.
In July 2024, reports arose that AWS built a data center campus for the Australian government in order to treat strictly secret information. The data center and the cloud system will be developed as a partnership between AWS and the Australian government, and the latter will invest in the new system in the new system in the new system (USD 1.3 billion) in the next ten years.
In total, AWS creates three facilities to accommodate the cloud system, which is specially created for defense and secret services and is expected to be in operation by 2027.
Microsoft was previously in the race for the project, and the Australian government has been looking for a cloud solution for its Ministry of Defense since 2021.