"More than 180 New Zealand public agencies have transferred masses of data to Microsoft cloud computing servers in Australia for storage and processing since 2019. Sensitive courts data could be headed that way."
#PhilPennington, 2024
"...the Ministry for the Environment said it was 'cloud infrastructure agnostic' but expressed a preference in two tenders as the solution had to 'integrate' with what it already had from Microsoft or AWS."
#PhilPennington, 2024
This kind of lock-in is precisely why we don't want public agencies leasing hosting from foreign DataFarmers.
@strypey yup, the cavalier naivete of these gov't decision makers is pretty breathtaking. (and heartbreaking)