<i>"With the new AWS Secret Region, we are bringing the same tools and workflows that are already available for Top Secret workloads to customers with Secret datasets and workloads."</i><p>Does this mean they already had an AWS "Top Secret" Region?
Article says that this is the first cloud provider certified for these workloads, but I believe both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS began negotiating these contracts around the same time.<p>Microsoft announced their version a few weeks ago[1]. I wonder if Google will follow shortly?<p>[1] <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-government-capabilities-for-classified-mission-critical-workloads/" rel="nofollow">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-...</a>
Now all of your e-mails and private data don't have to be carried all the way around the world back to Bluffdale, they can simply be dumped into AWS!
Sounds like this is an expansion of this: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...</a><p>to non-Intelligence Community users. You'll still need US Government Secret Clearance though.
> the CIA has placed a big bet on adopting
> commercial cloud technology<p>Can't they get the NSA to rent them some of their spare capacity from the CNCI? Or is this because they trust Amazon to have actually solved the hard problems?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center</a>
<i>We are pleased to announce the new AWS Secret Region. The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. The AWS Secret Region is readily available to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) through the IC’s Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) contract with AWS.</i>
Will it be locatable by latency (roughly) or is that not the point?<p>Additionally, if I was doing secret things I'd really think it was not a great idea to put that into a data centre marked "Definitely where I keep all of my secrets".