[mugsie]

apparently? JEDI and Wild and Stormy were two programs just from the DoD and NSA that were 20 billion USD.

AWS, Azure, Oracle, SUSE (via Rancher) and I am sure GCP all have confidential & classified (C/S/TS) clouds, as well as lower FedRAMP clouds to get that sweet sweet federal money.

Not sure what questions it raises, it has been a thing for decades.

[galangalalgol]

Given that extra information I guess:

Who handles physical security and what sort of place is it located that it can house that kind of data?

To what degree is the federal government subsidizing Amazon's retail dominance?

[mugsie]

> Who handles physical security and what sort of place is it located that it can house that kind of data?

In general, the cloud/systems operator, in conjunction with the launch customer will build a dedicated facility for the classified stuff, and for the controlled stuff may have a dedicated facility, or have segments of the DCs in the US with extra security. for the classified stuff, there is a pretty rigorous list of requirements for the DC, and for any NOC that operates the service.

> To what degree is the federal government subsidizing Amazon's retail dominance?

A fair bit, but they are just like any big customer - just with higher margins. I think that was part of the reasoning for breaking up JEDI after AWS got it - the administration at the time hated the AMZN leadership, so wanted to remove money firehose from them and give it to others.

[sofixa]

https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

None of this is new, AWS' dedicated US government stuff has existed for around a decade.

> To what degree is the federal government subsidizing Amazon's retail dominance?

Not more than any other big AWS customer.