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As long as there is only one Secret region, you can have reliability or you can have classified data, but not both.
by dsr_ 9y ago
As long as there is only one Secret region, you can have reliability or you can have classified data, but not both.
- spullara 9y agoAs long as they have multiple zones you can get the reliability ~ huge natural disaster that may affect other regions anyway.
- mrep 9y agoSomeone posted above that there already was one before and this is the second: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
- discodave 9y agoFirst region is top secret. So technically data in the existing region could be moved to the new region, but not vice versa.
- frandroid 9y agoIt doesn't say anywhere that this is a geographically distinct region.
- openasocket 9y agoIt would have to have at least physically separate data centers, that's kind of the whole point of having this in the first place.
- valbaca 9y agoregion != zone
- jacquesm 9y agoIf your secret region goes down the data just got more secret.
- degenerate 9y agoSomehow I can see this being an actual argument in government bids, and contracting officers gobbling it up...
- samstave 9y agoA region is a cluster of typically three distinct data centers and this could have the three D.C.'s distributed geographically in a model specifically designed to provide both.