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Amazon Launches Cloud Services For Government

AWS GovCloud will meet a host of strict regulatory requirements specific to government and include services such as Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud.

Amazon on Tuesday announced the release of cloud services aimed specifically at U.S. government users and contractors, joining a growing list of cloud service providers including Microsoft and Google that also have modified their cloud services to meet the unique needs of government.

According to Amazon, the new offering, Amazon Web Services GovCloud, will meet a host of strict regulatory requirements specific to government. It's designed to meet moderate security control levels under the Federal Information Security Management Act and to meet FIPS 140-2, a federal cryptography standard.

In addition, Amazon says that GovCloud supports processing and storage of export-controlled, often defense-related, data and applications governed by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), as it limits both logical and physical access to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The servers powering Amazon Web Services GovCloud will be physically located on the West Coast of the United States, giving customers further assurance that their data will stay in this country.

Clouds like Amazon's GovCloud that meet government requirements will likely increase government adoption. "As we move workloads into the cloud, we look forward to leveraging ITAR-compliant clouds such as the new AWS GovCloud for our compliance-dependent projects so we can continue to look to the cloud first for even more missions," NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory CTO Tomas Soderstrom said in a statement.

@Gawker: Update: the new owner of the Washington Post is a huge CIA contractor. http://gaw.kr/HZtnmvr

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justdrew » 06 Aug 2013 04:43 wrote:Other.

The only way out is through. One thing to keep in mind, much of these sorts of capability will be at the disposal of private enterprises, even if the NSA were "banned" tomorrow.

elfismiles » Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:04 am wrote:

justdrew » 06 Aug 2013 04:43 wrote:Other.

The only way out is through. One thing to keep in mind, much of these sorts of capability will be at the disposal of private enterprises, even if the NSA were "banned" tomorrow.

In talking about the Surveillance State with a close friend a few months back ... his sense was that the system will inevitably cave under financial pressures as the funds to support the surveillance state infrastructure will implode / evaporate.

I pray that happens soon. But somehow without concomitant destruction of social safety-nets.

Wombaticus Rex » Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:27 am wrote:The "surveillance state" may be on tenuous footing, but the surveillance industry is a tremendous growth market and every government and corporation in the world wants a piece.

Amazon buying The Washington Post is an amazing signal.

I wonder how much of the K. Graham / de Borchgrave files still exist there?