Amazon Hints At Details On Its CIA Franken-Cloud 67
coondoggie writes "Amazon Web Services recently won a reported $600 million contract to build the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a cloud. But that cloud will not look like any other cloud on the planet. Amazon will build the cloud using AWS architectures and AWS will manage it, but executives hinted that it will not be accessed the way other customers use AWS services through the public Internet. 'We're managing the operations in the data center,' Andy Jassy, Amazon's senior vice president and the head of the company's cloud computing division AWS said about the CIA deal. 'It's our hardware, it's our networking.'"
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
'Cloud' is a pretty nebulous...
I see what you did there.
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
I strongly recommend Cloud-to-butt Chrome extension [google.com]. You won't see "cloud" anymore and your browsing experience will be massively improved (and funnier).
Re:So... (Score:2, Funny)
'Cloud' is a pretty nebulous...
I see what you did there.
What? By pointing out that cloud providers make stratospheric claims? I didn' t mean to precipitate an argument....
RFC 1149 (Score:4, Funny)
but executives hinted that it will not be accessed the way other customers use AWS services through the public Internet.
That leaves only one possible option [wikipedia.org].
Re:So... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:worthless read (Score:2, Funny)
You had an account with the CIA?