CIA’s $600 Million Cloud Built by Amazon.com Is Now Operational
August 5, 2014
CIA’s Amazon-Built Cloud Goes Live
Frank Konkel
NextGov.com
August 1, 2014
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The Central Intelligence Agency is now officially an Amazon Web Services cloud consumer.
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Less than 10 months after a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge ended a public battle
between AWS and IBM for the CIA’s commercial cloud contract valued at
up to $600 million, the AWS-built cloud for the intelligence community
went online last week for the first time, according to a source familiar
with the deal.
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The cloud — best thought of as a public cloud computing environment
built on private premises — is yet far from its peak operational
capabilities when it will provide all 17 intelligence agencies
unprecedented access to an untold number of computers for various
on-demand computing, analytic, storage, collaboration and other
services.
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The timing aligns with public comments made
by CIA Chief Information Officer Douglas Wolfe in June, though neither
the CIA nor Amazon would confirm the cloud has come online.
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“Our goal is to make the IC cloud’s commercial services available to
customers beginning in summer 2014, and we are on target to meet it,” a
CIA spokesperson told Nextgov. “The services will be available to all intelligence community agencies.”
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