Deal With Amazon, Australian Spy Agent Transfer Intelligence Data To Cloud

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JAKARTA - Australia will move its classified intelligence data to the cloud under an A$2 billion ($1.3 billion) deal with Amazon Web Services. Defense Minister Richard Marles said the transfer would increase the interoperability of the defense force with the United States. Director General of the Australian Signal Directorate, Rachel Noble, said the agency national security will also increase the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze data under the changes, which will make secret data centers built in Australia. "Protecuted intelligence is an important game changer for all of us in the intelligence community, and we are working to embrace its use in an ethical, well-regulated, and well-understood way, where we understand very carefully as we bring AI tools to our environment. how are they being used, what do they do with the data and do we understand how carefully they need to be regulated?" Noble said in Canberra. quoted from Reuters, Thursday, July 4 The move to a cloud service run by Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), opens new sections, using custom-built distributed facilities. This, continued Marles, will provide greater resilience to the data used to support the defense forces. "If one server goes off, you can still operate," he said. "This is what will ensure we have the same computational operations as the US defense force in the future." Director General of National Intelligence, Andrew Shearer, told reporters that interoperability with security partners such as the United States is a priority.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement that partnerships between the Australian Signal Directorate and Amazon Web Services would enhance national security capabilities and create 2,000 local jobs.