24/04/2024
Shane Gibson
[FYI request #21681 email]
Tēnā koe Shane
OIA: 1326180 – Cloud infrastructure spend
Thank you for your email of 31 January 2023 to the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) requesting
the following information:
1. Please provide details of your total spend on cloud infrastructure over the last 5 years.
2. Please break the costs down by financial year.
3. Please break the costs down by cloud provider.
4. Please limit it to the following cloud providers: AWS, Azure, Catalyst Cloud, Google Cloud
We have reconsidered your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), following
discussion with the Office of the Ombudsman.
In response to
parts one and two of your request, I am providing you with the
Appendix A and B
Tables below this letter for the five complete financial years prior to the date of your request.
Appendix A Table is regarding invoices provided in USD, while the
Appendix B Table is
regarding invoices provided in NZD.
I am withholding the information that is in scope of
part three of your request in full under section
9(2)(b)(ii) of the Act, to protect information where the making available of the information would be
likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the
subject of the information.
With respect to
part four of your request, we have limited the request to providers which you have
listed. Please note the Ministry may not use services from all these providers.
As required under section 9(1) of the Act, I have considered the public interest in releasing the
information withheld. I do not consider the public interest considerations favouring the release of
this information are sufficient to outweigh the need to withhold it at this time.
Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review my decision
on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the Act. You can do this by writing to
[email address] or to Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Stuart Wakefield
Chief Digital Officer
Te Pou Hanganga, Matihiko | Infrastructure and Digital
8 Gilmer Terrace, Levels Ground floor, 1, 2, and 6-14, Wellington
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140 Phone: +64 4 463 8000
Appendix A Table - Total spend on cloud infrastructure over 5 years.
FY = Financial year.
All dollar amounts are in USD.
FY
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Total
17/18
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$422.08
$8,160.31
18/19
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$1,592.01
$28,215.46
19/20
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$3,986.28
$81,800.44
20/21
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$7,782.30
$114,723.81
21/22 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14 $16,109.14
$489,789.79
Appendix B Table - Total spend on cloud infrastructure over 5 years.
FY = Financial year.
FY
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Total
17/18
$3,239.64
$7,021.23
$9,847.41 $15,618.75 $21,498.98 $26,823.38 $31,404.62 $28,792.93 $32,256.58 $33,174.73 $35,729.20 $34,938.52
$280,345.97
18/19 $37,826.57 $45,458.10 $48,808.29 $56,250.64 $55,232.15 $58,513.94 $58,881.07 $52,589.60 $58,764.96 $53,396.94 $52,526.60 $49,542.50
$627,791.36
19/20 $45,662.81 $46,756.62 $44,503.11 $38,201.15 $30,325.72 $29,956.15 $29,780.65 $32,080.73 $33,441.53 $31,771.64 $30,038.94 $32,120.94
$424,639.99
20/21 $35,746.09 $37,726.95 $35,562.72 $37,671.09 $37,020.01 $35,498.25 $37,529.64 $39,155.92 $40,502.16 $41,089.39 $43,116.64 $41,134.86
$461,753.72
21/22 $45,369.83 $47,483.49 $48,823.80 $56,985.22 $59,958.59 $57,293.97 $60,705.53 $49,445.07 $61,124.36 $68,563.60 $73,009.32 $83,454.90
$712,217.68
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PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140 Phone: +64 4 463 8000
