Australian here. Government departments are slowly starting to catch on to this sort of thing. One application I work on stores data from DEEWR and FaHCSIA and

Australian here. Government departments are slowly starting to catch on to this sort of thing. One application I work on stores data from DEEWR and FaHCSIA and this year they've "cracked down" on that data going overseas. The application's data (and the bits we get back from the government) has always been stored in Australia on our hardware. My understanding is that some of our competitors using AWS and Rackspace had to work hard to quickly get their stuff hosted locally (or are in the process of bringing it back here). You can get an idea of what DEEWR expects providers using cloud services to adhere to from here: http://foi.deewr.gov.au/documents/policy-use-cloud-hosted-solutions-ccms-software-providers http://foi.deewr.gov.au/documents/policy-use-cloud-hosted-so...