CIA expands spy work through Amazon cloud | Financial Times Barney Jopson, 24 June 2014
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The US spy agency already has a $600m contract in place with #Amazon – that IBM challenged unsuccessfully in the courts – under which the e-commerce group will set up and manage a private cloud computing service based on #CIA premises.
«Federal Court Rules for Amazon in CIA ’Cloud’ Contract Dispute With IBM »
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Stephen Schmidt, AWS’s chief information security officer and a former Federal Bureau of Investigation official, did not talk about security arrangements with the CIA, but described Amazon’s general approach as “security through obscurity”.
Most AWS employees knew which countries their data centres were in, but very few knew their physical addresses. “Does our staff member need to know that information to do their job? If they don’t, they don’t get access to it,” he said.