Defense Agency To Begin Moving Classified Data to Amazon's Secret Cloud After Protest

.nextgov.com ^ | MARCH 13, 2018 12:19 PM ET | By Frank Konkel

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For the first time, the Defense Department will begin moving classified data and applications to Amazon Web Services’ Secret Region—the same cloud environment developed for the CIA and intelligence community several years ago.

The Defense Department’s sole-source decision—a contract awarded without a full and open competition—was protested by Microsoft, which itself offers a variety of cloud services to the federal government.

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[dinodino]

As long as it’s only in the same category as Hillary’s 33k emails, I guess it should be okay...

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Yeah.

[Makana]

Is this the “secret” Amazon CLoud servers located in Ireland?

[Alas Babylon!]

If companies that produce weapons systems have to develop prototypes and bid on the overall contract, then so should software services.

I managed many a software service contract bidding process back in my military days.

I don’t see how Amazon got the deal without a regular contract—which should have invoked the bidding process. Microsoft is not the only company with massive Cloud services, Google and IBM have them also.

[trebb]

For really sensitive stuff, they use multiple encryption (re-encrypt what’s already been encrypted).....With today’s methods, it can be made very safe - way more safe than Apple’s encryption which defies the FBI...

[Machavelli]

Yet. All the encryption systems devised by man can eventually be broken by man.

[MayflowerMadam]

Bezos + classified data = big trouble.

[cymbeline]

“just use pre-internet encryption before putting anything in the cloud”

That’s my idea. Uncrackable encryption is easy as long as you have a secure way of getting the encryption key to the receiver. You can write the encryption/decryption program yourself. You use the same program on both ends. It just exclusive-or’s the data with the key. A 20,000-byte random-bit key is a reasonable one to use.

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