By Justin Hendry on Apr 7, 2021 6:58AM 'Azura Cloud Project' gets underway. NSW Police has adopted a multi-vendor hybrid cloud for its future IT infrastructure needs, with work now underway to stand up a protected-level Microsoft Azure data centre. iTnews can reveal Australia’s largest policing agency recently down selected Microsoft and AWS to host a number of frontline IT solutions under what it calls the ‘Azura Cloud Project’. Chief information and technology officer Gordon Dunsford has previously said that hybrid cloud was chosen due to the “co-existence required with legacy on premise IT systems” NSW Police told iTnews the project will involve building the “cloud foundations” that will “support a range of applications that are either cloud ready or soon to commence delivery”.