ResearchThe CIA’s move to the cloud
The CIA’s decision to use Amazon’s cloud is part of a broader strategy to make the spy business more efficient. “The move is being overseen by Al Tarasiuk, who serves as… Read more »
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
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