Amazon.com Providing Private Cloud Services for the CIA.

[onehandle]

What information of yours does Amazon possess?
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In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years.

Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the agency keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA's previous cloud efforts, sources told FCW.

Amazon officials would not confirm the existence of the contract, and a CIA spokesperson likewise declined to comment on the matter.

"As a general rule, the CIA does not publicly disclose details of our contracts, the identities of our contractors, the contract values, or the scope of work," a CIA spokesperson told FCW.

http://fcw.com/articles/2013/03/18/amazon-cia-cloud.aspx?m=1

[octothorpe]

1. Wow, I would have figured the CIA would have

just much computing power as Amazon does, if not more.

[SidDithers]

2. Amazon also provided cloud service for the Obama campaign...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/built-to-win-deep-inside-obamas-campaign-tech/

Sid

[Matariki]

3. I always assumed they were bff's already.

Since working there in the early days and watching Jeff Bezos at a company meeting wax priapic about the many exciting uses of customer data collection.