Of the AU$9.2 million total cost to the Digital Transformation Agency, AWS picked up AU$2.8 million in hosting.
On October 4, Australia’s COVIDSafe app that was claimed in 2020 to be digital sunscreen by Prime Minister Scott Morrison was handed over to the Department of Health from the Digital Transformation Agency. Speaking at Senate Estimates on Monday night, the DTA said the total cost up to the handover date was just shy of AU$9.2 million, with Amazon Web Services picking up AU$2.77 million in hosting costs. In March it was revealed the agency was spending around AU$100,000 each month on hosting, but had allocated AU$200,000 each month for “future changes”.
