Amazon Web Services (AWS) power many popular and essential cloud-based internet tools, ranging from entertainment and social networking sites like Netflix and Instagram to scientific endeavors like the 1,000 Genomes Project. Now, it sounds like Amazon might be building a custom version of its cloud infrastructure for perhaps the company's most sensitive and secretive client — the CIA. According to FCW , a site specializing in "the business of federal technology," Amazon recently won a cloud computing contract with the government agency worth up to $600 million over a 10-year period.
It's not entirely clear what the CIA will do with its new cloud, but FCW says it'll provide a better way for the agency to keep up with emerging...
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