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		bigiain on March 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal Yeah but… If you had a $600million budget, wouldn't you just call up Amazon and say "Hey, you know your Availability Zones and Regions? How much to build me a couple of them, along with all your management and accounting software, so we can run pretty much all of AWS (front and back end) inside our own data centers?" It'd be much easier for recruitment, to be able to advertise for developers/data-scientists/sysadmins with AWS experience, than just about _any_ alternative…

dsl on March 20, 2013 [–]

That's probably what someone asked for. By the time it got approved, GSA signoff, and past contracts and vendor management, they have a micro instance in us-east-1 to run www.cia.gov off of.

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