Dept of Health and Aged Care inks new AWS agreement

The Department of Health and Aged Care has renewed its cloud arrangement with Amazon Web Services for another three years.

Health has used AWS for cloud services since 2022, having agreed a $16.8 million deal with the hyperscaler, which is due to expire on June 30.

Ahead of the expiration, the department has signed a $22.9 million agreement with AWS that begins May 1 and expires in April 2028.

iTnews understands that the contract covers compute, storage, analytics, generative AI and other proof of concept services that are hosted and provided by AWS.

The agreement was sourced via the Digital Transformation Agency’s government-wide cloud sourcing arrangement with AWS, which was renewed for another three years in February.

AWS sits among fellow hyperscalers, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud within Health’s infrastructure environment.

The renewal comes amid a raft of digital health initiatives, as outlined in the government’s National Digital Health Strategy 2023–2028, which set out the need for interoperable, data-driven and scalable technology measures within the sector [pdf].