"I ain't got no teef."
Posted on 08/11/2021 6:58:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly been awarded a secret cloud computing contract from the NSA worth up to $10 billion.
Nextgov reports that the tech giant Amazon has been awarded a $10 billion cloud-computing contract from the National Security Agency (NSA). According to protest filings obtained by Nextgov, the contract is named “WildandStormy” and appears to be part of an initiative by the NSA to modernize its storage of classified data.
Microsoft has challenged the awarding of the contract, according to Government Accountability Office records. An NSA spokesperson commented: “NSA recently awarded a contract for cloud computing services to support the Agency. The unsuccessful offeror has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office. The Agency will respond to the protest in accordance with appropriate federal regulations.”
Microsoft confirmed that it filed the protest, stating: “Based on the decision we are filing an administrative protest via the Government Accountability Office. We are exercising our legal rights and will do so carefully and responsibly.”
Amazon Web Services has previously worked with multiple intelligence organizations and has worked with the NSA in the past. In 2013, Amazon received a deal worth $600 million from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to provide cloud services to both the CIA and the NSA.
Chris Cornillie, an analyst at Bloomberg Government, commented on the situation: “[The NSA’s award] just reiterates that Amazon is still the cloud provider to beat across the federal government. Microsoft has come a long way and made it a two way horse race in government, but Amazon was forming relationships and gathering security certifications a decade ago and Microsoft is still playing catch-up.”
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"I ain't got no teef."
Microsoft just got some points.
I guess it wasn’t THAT big a secret.
No they didnt
Neither of them are good
Biden’s payoff to Bezos for his Washington Post’s support and cheerleading for the all the leftist policies???
Amazon IS the US government.
Here ends the “muh private company can do whatever they want” argument.
Beware the
Industrial-Military Complex.
.
We had a good run.
+Google +Apple= Skynet
Big Tech and Big Biz are going to be the global rulers. Governments are just window dressing.
Amazon IS the US government.
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yep!!
And that is how you pay for a stolen presidential election.
I literally despise it when idiots write that crap in comments.
It is a truly pathetic excuse for the fascist corporate abuse that Americans are suffering under leftist rule.
US Intel agencies and AWS are essentially one.
Great. Just a matter of time before I go online looking for a cheap replacement Casio work watch and come across the phone records of the Albanian ambassador to France or some such...
“We want to mine all the government data.”
“No, WE want to mine all the government’s data.”
“Well, they chose us!”
“Well, we’ll see about that.”
I wish nukes would hit all three frankly.
New and improved fascism.
Alexa, transfer 2 million dollars to my bank account.
You forgot to give your bank account number.
I am a Nigerian Prince. Send it to me and I will guarantee that you get the 2 million.
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