Google Australia certified to run govt cloud workloads

Google Australia has finally landed on the Australian government’s certified cloud services list (CCSL), gaining permission to store and run unclassified workloads.The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) said this week that the Google Cloud Platform had been added, “increasing the options available to Australian government agencies.”Google was the only large public cloud provider not on the list, but A/NZ country director for cloud Colin Timm told iTnews back in May the company had been working behind-the-scenes to change that.“The ACSC concluded that the Google Cloud Platform met the necessary requirements and is suitable to host Australian government workloads to unclassified DLM in specified regions,” the ACSC said in a statement.