{"id":42544,"date":"2021-10-27T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=d84b564ad0e87d4a2ee3036e9f49b8bd"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:51:50","slug":"aws-and-google-win-japanese-government-cloud-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-and-google-win-japanese-government-cloud-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS and Google win Japanese government cloud contract"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Zach Marzouk<\/a><\/span>
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27 Oct, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Japan\u2019s Digital Agency has selected\u00a0Amazon Web Services<\/a>\u00a0(AWS) and\u00a0Google Cloud<\/a>\u00a0to run its first nationwide cloud computing project in the country, as the government tries to implement\u00a0digital transformation<\/a>\u00a0across its ministries.<\/p>\n

The two providers were chosen as they met around 350 requirements across\u00a0security<\/a>, legal issues, and data management, an official from the agency, according to\u00a0Nikkei Asia<\/em><\/a>. AWS and Google will first be used to run the agency\u2019s website as well as by eight municipalities on a trial basis.<\/p>\n

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\nThe government\u00a0cloud<\/a>\u00a0project is aiming to unify and standardise digital infrastructure across ministries and approximately 1,700 municipalities, which run their own systems. Domestic system integrators have usually been selected to manage data centres and business applications, which the government believes has led to customised systems with high maintenance costs and overlapping functions.<\/p>\n

The vendor lock-in has also prevented the rollout of public services and hampered the country\u2019s COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n

It was also revealed that the budget for government cloud computing until next March is around 2 billion yen (\u00a312.3 million) with the budget for upcoming years still to be determined.<\/p>\n

The Digital Agency\u00a0was launched on 1 September<\/a>\u00a0and is set to control most of the government\u2019s IT budget. It is aiming to move local governments to the cloud by 2025, which could reduce the annual IT budget of \u00a35 billion by about 30%, according to a government official.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a cloud services provider directly contracted by the Digital Agency, AWS will help the Japanese government to modernize IT by directly offering advanced technologies and global best practices,\u201d an AWS spokesperson said to\u00a0CloudPro<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will also enable us to continue to work with Japanese AWS Partners and startups to accelerate innovation in citizen services, drive local economic growth, and solve some of the biggest challenges in society.\u201d<\/p>\n

CloudPro<\/em>\u00a0has contacted Google for comment.<\/p>\n

The move comes\u00a0as part of a push by the\u00a0Japanese<\/a>\u00a0government to implement digital transformation across its ministries, which have tended to lag behind.<\/p>\n

The government has only just begun to phase out the use of floppy disks, according to a report from\u00a0Nikkei Asia<\/em><\/a>, as officials\u00a0saw the outdated tech as ultra-reliable, saying they almost never broke or lost data. Sony stopped producing the disks in 2011 but, thanks to their reusability, there are still plenty to go around. However, various subdivisions of the Tokyo government have already started moving the data from floppy disks to other online storage formats. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zach Marzouk<\/p>\n

27 Oct, 2021 <\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Digital Agency has selected\u00a0Amazon Web Services\u00a0(AWS) and\u00a0Google Cloud\u00a0to run its first nationwide cloud computing project in the country, as the government tries to implement\u00a0digital tr…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42545,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions\/42545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}