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8 Nov 2013: AllThingsD: Nine Questions for Andy Jassy, Head of Amazon Web Services
by Arik Hesseldahl
Q: You recently won the CIA’s cloud computing contract. It surprised me that the CIA, which you would think of as being very conservative in its IT approach, would be willing to embrace the public cloud. What does it mean to have the CIA as a client?
JASSY: I have to think about what I can say here. The CIA and the intelligence community are trying to change the way they do computing. They wanted a platform that was transformational in how fast they could get their work done, how readily it scales, the array of services available for them to do their workloads. We were certainly pleased and gratified they chose us. … They were looking for a very robust and fully-featured infrastructure platform...
Q: Let’s talk about your work on GovCloud, the Government-facing cloud computing service. It launched following work by Vivek Kundra, the former CIO of the United States, who urged the government to embrace cloud computing as a way of saving costs. Have there been other federal government clients?
JASSY: Sure. There have been more than 600 government agencies worldwide that are using AWS. The Navy has put its non-classified information on AWS and is spending half of what it was spending before...
The Obama campaign used AWS, and over 18 months built 200 applications. On election day they built a call center, they built an elaborate database to know where their volunteers were, know the neighborhoods where people appeared not to have voted, so they could go knock on doors and get out the vote...
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