Friday, September 15, 2017

Amazon Married To US Military ???

Amazon Web Services has a new market for its cloud computing, analytics, and storage services.

This week, the Defense Department granted the cloud computing giant a provisional authorization to host Impact Level 5 workloads, which are the military and Pentagon’s most sensitive, unclassified information. 

“This further bolsters AWS as an industry leader in helping support the DoD’s critical mission in protecting our security,” the company said in a statement. “The AWS services support a variety of DoD workloads, including workloads containing sensitive controlled unclassified information and National Security Systems information.”

You can read the rest @
http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2017/09/amazon-web-services-can-now-host-defense-departments-most-sensitive-data/140973/

Interesting. Amazon already is host to CIA data. You can read about that here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/

Two questions:

  1. Is it really a good idea to privatize national security? I think the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz affair is answering that question for us.
  2. Is this particular cloud safe from hacking? If so, why couldn't Equifax have employed a comparable level of security for OUR data?

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