Project Nimbus

Extracted Attributes

• Phases

  4 (infrastructure procurement/construction, policy development, operations migration, implementation/optimization)

• Purpose

  Provide comprehensive cloud solution, including AI and machine learning capabilities, for the Israeli government, military, and other entities

• Key Feature

  Establish local cloud sites within Israel's borders

• Contract Value

  1.2 billion USD

• Security Mandate

  Keep information within Israel's borders under strict security guidelines

• Contractual Obligation

  Companies forbidden from denying service to any particular government entities

• Original Name (Hebrew)

  פרוייקט נימבוס

• Responsible Organization

  Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

Timeline

• Israeli Finance Ministry announced the cloud computing contract. (Source: DBpedia)

  2021-04

• Joint contract signed between Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2021

• 1,700 employees sent a petition to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy protesting Project Nimbus. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2023-12

• Google fired 28 Google Employees for staging sit-in protests at offices in Sunnyvale and New York City against Project Nimbus. (Source: Document 0b0b85f3-ba5b-4c47-97b8-fddea126d4a0)

  2024-04

• EFF issued a public call to Amazon and Google regarding their promises on Project Nimbus and its potential human rights implications. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2024-08

Project Nimbus

Project Nimbus (Hebrew: פרויקט נימבוס) is a cloud computing contract between the Israeli government and the American technology companies Google and Amazon.

Web Search Results

• Project Nimbus - National Cloud Infrastructure - OECD.AI

  Project Nimbus is Israel's national cloud initiative to provide secure and efficient cloud services for government agencies. Major providers like Google and AWS set up local data centers to support this effort. The project helps improve government technology infrastructure, ensuring faster and safer digital services for citizens. ### Name in original language פרוייקט נימבוס ### Initiative overview [...] The initiative has the following objectives:Nimbus is set to provide "the government, the defense establishment, and others with an all-encompassing cloud solution." Under the contract, the companies will establish local cloud sites that will "keep information within Israel's borders under strict security guidelines." ### Name of responsible organisation (in English) National Digital Agncy |Ministry of Finance (MOF)|National Cyber Directorate |Prime Minister's Office (PMO) [...] Overview National International All initiatives ## Project Nimbus - National Cloud Infrastructure Added by: National contact point Added on: 09 Jul 2025 Updated by: OECD analyst Updated on: 09 Jul 2025

• What is Project Nimbus, and why are Google workers protesting ...

  Known as Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military, which has faced condemnation for its war on Gaza, described by United Nations experts and several countries as a “genocide”. [...] According to a 2021 report by the US-based news outlet The Intercept, Google is offering advanced AI capabilities to Israel, which could harvest data for facial recognition and object tracking as part of Project Nimbus. Activists and academics have been alarmed by Israel’s use of AI to target Palestinians, while legal scholars say the use of AI in war violates international laws. Google employees protest in New York [...] In December of last year, in response to Project Nimbus, 1,700 employees sent a petition to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stating that “by providing a cloud ecosystem for the Israeli public sector, Amazon is bolstering the artificial intelligence and surveillance capabilities of the Israeli military used to repress Palestinian activists and impose a brutal siege on Gaza”.

• Google Worried It Couldn't Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus ...

  Both documents spell out that Project Nimbus entails a deep collaboration between Google and the Israeli security state through the creation of a Classified Team within Google. This team is made up of Israeli nationals within the company with security clearances, designed to “receive information by \[Israel\] that cannot be shared with \[Google\].” Google’s Classified Team “will participate in specialized training with government security agencies,” the first report states, as well as “joint [...] Along with its work for the Israeli military, Google through Project Nimbus sells cloud services to Israel Aerospace Industries, the state-owned weapons maker whose munitions have helped devastate Gaza. Another confirmed Project Nimbus customer is the Israel Land Authority, a state agency that among other responsibilities distributes parcels of land in the illegally annexed and occupied West Bank. [...] Google has long defended Project Nimbus by stating that the contract “is not directed at highly sensitive, classified or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.” The internal materials note that Project Nimbus will entail nonclassified workloads from both the Ministry of Defense and Shin Bet, the country’s rough equivalent of the FBI. Classified workloads, one report states, will be handled by a second, separate contract code-named “Natrolite.” Google did not respond

• Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project Nimbus

  Project Nimbus provides advanced cloud and AI capabilities to the Israeli government, tools that an increasing number of credible reports suggest are being used to target civilians under pervasive surveillance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This is more than a technical collaboration—it’s a human rights crisis in the making as evidenced by data-driven targeting programs like Project Lavender and Where’s Daddy, which have reportedly led to detentions, killings, and the systematic [...] It’s a reasonable thing to ask if these promises are being kept. And it’s especially important since Amazon and Google have been increasingly implicated by reports that their technologies, specifically their joint cloud computing initiative called Project Nimbus, are being used to facilitate mass surveillance and human rights violations of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. This was the basis of our public call in August 2024 for the companies [...] But instead, they failed to respond. This is unfortunate, since it leads us to question how serious they were in their promises. And it should lead you to question that too. ### Project Nimbus: Technology at the Expense of Human Rights

• What is Project Nimbus (No Tech For Apartheid) - Labor for Palestine

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• Instance Of

  Q7889

Project Nimbus (Hebrew: פרויקט נימבוס) is a cloud computing project of the Israeli government and its military. The Israeli Finance Ministry announced April 2021, that the contract is to provide "the government, the defense establishment, and others with an all-encompassing cloud solution." Under the contract, the companies will establish local cloud sites that will "keep information within Israel's borders under strict security guidelines." Project Nimbus has four planned phases: the first is purchasing and constructing the cloud infrastructure, the second is crafting government policy for moving operations onto the cloud, the third is moving operations to the cloud, and the fourth is implementing and optimizing cloud operations. Under a $1.2 billion contract, technology companies Google (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) were selected to provide Israeli government agencies with cloud computing services, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. The terms Israel set for the project contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure. The tech companies are also forbidden from denying service to any particular government entities.