Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads
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Vietnam has decided to develop its own cloud platform, so its government agencies can stop using foreign-owned services.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung last week announced the plan in Decision 808/QD-TTg, which lists 20 strategic technologies Vietnam wants to develop to improve its technological self-reliance and give its government the tools to tackle national challenges.
Developing a national cloud computing platform is number 13 on the list.
Machine translation of Decision 808 yields the following goals for the project: “Ensuring national data sovereignty and cybersecurity for the digital government and key digital economic infrastructures; forming a centralized, secure, and reliable digital and data infrastructure to serve national digital transformation; gradually replacing foreign cloud services in state agencies, reducing the risk of data leaks and breaches of state secrets.”
The move is a sign that Vietnam’s...
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