Amazon Web Services has responded after Microsoft yesterday said Azure has superior data redundancy capabilities and is the only IRAP-compliant public cloud provider in Australia.
At the Azure Australia public launch yesterday, Microsoft's local data centres were revealed to be located in Sydney and Melbourne, with the vendor's executives consistently emphasising the "geographic redundancy" that this brings.
However, it is understood that AWS has three separate availability zones in Sydney.
AWS declined to confirm the location of its Sydney sites nor the data centre providers involved. Sister publication iTnews revealed earlier this month that Amazon is constructing two of its own data centres in Sydney, to add to the three existing co-location zones.
AWS has countered another of Microsoft's claims: that Azure Australia is the only public cloud to have IRAP certification.
IRAP is an independent audit administered under the Australian Signals Directorate that provides an indicator for government sector organisations of the provider's security capabilities.
AWS this morning shared a direct link to its IRAP letter of compliance and a white paper guiding customers on how AWS meets ASD's directives. Amazon Web Services said in this morning's statement that its infrastructure meets numerous international standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 1 and PCI DSS Level 1.
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