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by mugsie 420 days ago
> 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.