111 Amazon hosts all of the CIA’s computer infrastructure. They just signed a $10 billion contract with the NSA. But don’t worry, they’re a totally normal company that started as a bookstore. (theculturechronicles.com) Speculation posted 2 years ago by tylersfarley 2 years ago by tylersfarley +111 / -0 22 comments share 22 comments share save hide report block hide replies
On one hand, AWS (and maybe GCP or Azure) are the only ones remotely big enough and robust enough to handle what the government needs, and the government building it themselves would be a mess.
Buuuut. It's frightening out much stuff is just sitting on AWS GovCloud https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/?whats-new-ess.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-ess.sort-order=desc
In theory, it's encrypted in such a way that AWS employees wouldn't be able to read it if they tried, but ...