June 2013, the CIA give Amazon AWS a sweet-hart deal. August - TopicsExpress

June 2013, the CIA give Amazon AWS a sweet-hart deal. August 2013, Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. “Here’s something funny: Amazon, as well as Google, had this notion that cloud should be something deliverable to anyone across the public internet while IBM and HP wanted the cloud to be private. IBM offered cloud services by building a service inside your own data center. One might think that the CIA would go for IBM since it offers a private cloud, but instead it turned its nose up at that offer and chose Amazon. No doubt the retail giant did more than bend over backwards to secure this contract, since it now has no qualms with offering its own private cloud. ” CIA Gives Amazon Web Services its Seal of Approval for Cloud service (Jun 19, 2013)