Two things to be aware of: 1) This was an external press release. It's possible communication to the actual Guard had more detail. Or not; it's the military, a

Two things to be aware of: 1) This was an external press release. It's possible communication to the actual Guard had more detail. Or not; it's the military, and they'll tell you what you "need to know." 2) While they don't guarantee the data wasn't leaked, I read that as more in the sense that "The non-DoD-accredited datacenter is outside of our auditing trail" than in the sense that it's actually likely the data was leaked. If you take my state's drivers' license database and uploaded it to AWS, the state can't "guarantee" the data wasn't used unlawfully either, but you can be certain that Amazon has a lot to lose if some failure of their infrastructure gives China access to a list of passport-authorizing documents.