The cloud computing service unit of Amazon, Amazon Web
Services, will invest the amount over a period of ten years, the company said.
The investment includes capital expenditure, the
construction of the centres, imports of equipment, and operating expenses such
as the salaries of the 1,300 employees the company will hire there.
Amazon Web Services has had a presence in Spain since 2012
and is building more infrastructure to be able to host data in Spain for its
customers who require it.
Back in April, Amazon Web Services and Google was chosen by
Israel for a more than $1-billion project to provide cloud services for the
country's public sector and military.
Amazon and Google beat out Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM in the
tender for the four phase project known as "Nimbus", the Finance
Ministry said.
They will establish local cloud sites in Israel with an
initial investment of ILS 4 billion. These sites will keep information within
Israel's borders under strict security guidelines.
The four phases of the project include acquisition and
construction of cloud infrastructure, formulating government policy for
migrating to the cloud, integration, and migration, and control and
optimisation of cloud activity.
Nimbus is a multi-year flagship project intended to provide
a comprehensive solution for the provision of cloud services to the government,
the defence system, and other groups in the economy, the ministry said.
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