This is a bigger deal than most people think. Government has been clamoring to use the the cloud, but couldn't because of security reasons. Every government consulting shop will try and sell this to their clients.
So much of what we do is simple database - form type applications. To be able to develop these in a more agile, less pay IBM a billion dollars type way, will revolutionise IT in Government.
Obviously for the Australian government we would need an Australian version of this or a similar service.
Government IT procurement for fairly trivial systems cost unbelievable amounts of money. A lot of this is due to an overly rigid scoping and dev process.