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Amazon and Microsoft are certainly pursuing the defense market for their computing products. Defense is a half trillion dollar market. It's surprising that an
by pmorici 8y ago
Amazon and Microsoft are certainly pursuing the defense market for their computing products. Defense is a half trillion dollar market. It's surprising that anyone is confused why a company would want to be in it.
- jopsen 8y agoIf all they need is generic services with various certification and isolation, I see no reason not to sell that. And the "air gap" mentioned in this article doesn't seem controversial. Doing AI for drones, however, could easily become controversial.
- sidr 8y agoThe air gap itself is so that the military can use Google cloud to run computations that require a higher level of clearance. Those high clearance level computations are more likely to be directly related to combat and AI for drones. Air gap itself is no biggie, but the only reason they're building it is to enable the use of Google cloud for drone AI.
- AndrewKemendo 8y agoThose high clearance level computations are more likely to be directly related to combat and AI for drones. No. The closer you are to a bullet the further you are from JWICS. Aside from the most compartmentalized of special operations, which typically will fall within the purview of an IC member, the majority of the military works either in the open or at the "Secret" level.