Amazon and Google win Israel's Nimbus cloud tender

• Published date: 21 April 2021
• Date: 21 April 2021
• Author: Ela Levi-Weinrib and Uri Berkovitz
• Publication title: Globes (Rishon LeZion, Israel)

Once AWS and Google have paid the fees for the tender, they will set about establishing cloud sites around Israel at an estimated cost of NIS 4 billion. The cloud services will be provided at cloud sites in Israel where data will be processed and maintained within Israel under the strictest data security regulations overseen by the relevant government authorities.

The project includes four parts: purchasing and building the cloud infrastructures, formulating government policy for migrating to the cloud, integrating and migrating to the cloud, and implementing control and optimization of cloud activities.

The two losing companies in the tender - Microsoft and Oracle - waged a public relations campaign in efforts to change the decision, which included a telephone conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier this month, they submitted an administrative petition to the court to extend the date for challenging the results of the tender.

The defeat for Microsoft in the...