In a statement Amazon Web Services said, it will open data centers in Israel. The announcement comes weeks after Tel Aviv signed a deal with AWS and Google for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for its military and the public sector.

Earlier this year in April, AWS and Google won a tender for implementing the fourth phase of a project known as “Nimbus”. 

“Today, Amazon Web Services Inc, an Amazon.com company, announced it will open an infrastructure region in Israel in the first half of 2023”, sid AWS in a statement on Friday.