According to a publication by Defense OneThe Amazon Web Services took over and implemented a private cloud just for the CIA. A $600 million contract that named Amazon Web Services the winner is the motivation creationς ενός ιδιωτικού Cloud που θα στεγάσει 17 secret services US intelligence.
While neither the CIA nor Amazon has officially announced the launch of the Cloud or confirmed the news, Defense One reports that it has reliable information from anonymous sources. Moreover, the event coincides with the CIA's public announcement, which had stated that it would be transferred to the Cloud from the summer of 2014.
It should be noted that all Cloud is behind the information service firewall and not Amazon. While using the technologies developed for Amazon's public cloud infrastructures, the services are protected by firewall and private.
The CIA is convinced that the Cloud will be secure, and according to an article by a senior CIA official, "Security in the IC cloud will be as secure or secure as our current data centers." This probably explains the fact that the Cloud is designed not only as a CIA datacenter, but to provide services to 17 different services.
The fact proves the close relationship between large technology companies and government agencies. There is no cause for concern for this news, as it is news. The worrying are the under-table deals, and they never reach the media. Or if they arrive it's too late, see Snowden.
