Pentagon cancels the $10 JEDI cloud contract awarded to Microsoft
(mspoweruser.com)
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Wasn't this a big deal a couple years ago. Clowns owning AWS or something?
Why use cloud services from outside companies? With the IT budget the DOD (hell, the entire FED!) has, why not build their own private cloud environment? They're ramping up data center consolidations and expanding at the same time. Would be in their control and they don't have to be concerned with an outside entity's security issues.
The government uses private companies for many reasons. It all helps with plausible deniability and makes any investigations more difficult.
When MK Ultra started looking promising they moved research from the CIA into private hospitals in Canada. Then FOIA no longer worked, the hospitals could claim that any information was propietary information and the funding route was obscured. It also created an "international" problem in that case as well.
It is like when you get your broadband internet service from someone who is not your telephone provider. They can both point the finger at each other if something goes wrong.
It is also a good way to pay back your friends. For instance, a newspaper like the Washington Post, say, might be better disposed to show the CIA in a good light if its owner is receiving $billions for a cloud service to the CIA.
so much this, but this tells us who is in control.
Exactly. Internal : external independent cloud.. build their own server farms/cloud...
Why use public services,,. Hackable //
Unless.?-
Makes sense, sell Pentagon data direct. Microsoft was charging entirely to much for a fear factor that doesn't exist anymore.
I wonder if the sales rep get's to keep the commission :)