Project Nimbus

Published
25th Apr, 2024

Context

Google has fired some of its employees after they participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government called Project Nimbus.

What is project Nimbus?

Project Nimbus is a contract awarded to Google and Amazon.com in 2021 to supply the Israeli government with cloud services.
The aim of the project is to provide Israel with public cloud services in order to address challenges in various sectors of the country like healthcare, transportation, and education.
The execution of this project will allow Israel to perform large-scale data analysis, AI training, database hosting, and other forms of powerful computing using Google’s technology.

Fact Box: About Cloud Services

Clouds are IT environments that abstract, pool, and share scalable resources across a network.
The public cloud is defined as computing services offered by third-party providers over the public Internet, making them available to anyone who wants to use or purchase them.