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I think I read somewhere about rumors of intelligence agencies availabilty zone, under physical control of US intelligence agencies. After all, at a massive sc

I think I read somewhere about rumors of intelligence agencies availabilty zone, under physical control of US intelligence agencies. After all, at a massive scale, having access to industry standard tools for provisionning makes sense: give $$$ to AMZN for their software stack and hw integration cost probably less than building your own...? AWS GovCloud exist solely for this purpose: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/whatis.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/what... A really private AV zone is just a step away: put gov guards at the entrance of DCs, replace all AWS teams by in-house personnel (or have AWS teams sworned in at the relevant level...?)

ForHackernews 12y ago
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-differences.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govc... > Hard token multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices are not available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.
dbarlett 12y ago
"a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community." http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-de...