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The US Transportation Command is responsible for moving troops and equipment around the globe.

This cloud service contract had been objected to and held up by Microsoft who just withdrew their objections.

Private employees with the keys to the castle. Hmmm.

I'm all about privatizing government, but this seems a bit uncomfortable.

The Russians and Chinese would put their best hackers on this cloud hack, night and day.

1 posted on 03/21/2018 9:51:18 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb

the people who operate this all have the required DoD/DOE/SCI
clearances. AWS has operated 3 letter agency clouds for some time.


2 posted on 03/21/2018 10:00:44 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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And Bezos also owns the Washington Post, doesn’t he? “Forget it Jake, it’s darkstate town.”


3 posted on 03/21/2018 10:02:05 AM PDT by circlecity
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Break up Amazon!


4 posted on 03/21/2018 10:03:14 AM PDT by Pietro
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How can anyone at Amazon possibly get a security clearance?

This is outrageous.
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5 posted on 03/21/2018 10:07:36 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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“The Russians and Chinese would put their best hackers on this cloud hack, night and day.”

IF they even needed to.


6 posted on 03/21/2018 10:13:44 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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Working for the State we just got a memo last week saying if you got data in the cloud you best have a damn good reason and approval for it, else get it down to our own servers!


7 posted on 03/21/2018 10:38:59 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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Will Bezos use the cash to buy The New York Times?


10 posted on 03/21/2018 11:15:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Demographics destroys cultures more completely than thermonuclear war.)
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Just another reason I’ll never knowingly use ‘The Cloud’ for anything. How ‘bout you?


11 posted on 03/21/2018 11:24:09 AM PDT by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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