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Amazon Signs $600M Cloud Infrastructure Deal With CIA
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 19:09
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The Central Intelligence Agency has signed a 10-year, $600 million cloud computing deal with Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services, Federal Computer Week reported Tuesday.
FCW, quoting unnamed sources, said Amazon is building private cloud infrastructure for the CIA that the agency will use to keep pace with big data and other emerging technologies. FCW speculated that the CIA wants a public cloud-like infrastructure running inside its firewall to ensure classified data doesn’t leak.
Amazon is top dog in infrastructure-as-a-service and is actively looking to expand its influence to the public sector. But many government agencies are terrified of the public cloud, primarily because of the implications of sensitive data leakage.
Looks like the CIA has grown another arm. -Mort
