Hacker News Reader

Comment by ForHackernews | Hacker News Reader

Maybe their website. Not for anything that matters. They're not building billion-dollar datacenters in Utah for fun.

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/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...?)

"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-de...

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.

Amazon has a separate cloud for government computing that conforms to the various classification regimes, iirc.

That's GovCloud, see here: http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

The 600 million contract described here is not GovCloud: http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-ser...?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com