Strypey"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.
Dave Lane 
🇳🇿@strypey yup, the cavalier naivete of these gov't decision makers is pretty breathtaking. (and heartbreaking)
IceNineIt's often put in the too hard basket when raised at the time.
Just imagine though, during an event, they could have Uber-style surge pricing!
"Hello NEMA, this is Clippy from Azure. I see you are having issues with a major natural disaster, would you like me to:
- prioritise your data, at the premium subscription rate of $79,999/d. for the entirety of the event (best deal) ?
- continue on your current data plan, with surge pricing of $49,999/d? or
- have your data deprioritised, maximum 1Mb/s and an access penalty, $19,999/d plus $750 per file accessed?
"The NDMS [National Disease Management System] was being hosted within a 'private isolated section' of Amazon's 'cloud' of data warehouse servers in Sydney."
#PhilPennington, 2024
