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2021-10-27 Britain

UK Spy Agencies Sign Deal with Amazon to Host Classified Information

[Breitbart] Spy agencies in the United Kingdom have inked a billion-dollar deal with the Masters of the Universe at Amazon to host classified information on the tech giant’s cloud computing apparatus.

MI5, the British equivalent to the FBI, MI6, which serves a similar role to the CIA, and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which is similar to the NSA, have all agreed to host top-secret information on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing servers.

According to a report in the Financial Times, the deal is believed to be worth between £500m to £1bn over the next decade. The full details of the agreement have not and most likely will not be made public.

The use of AWS software will reportedly enable quicker cross-agency sharing of information and help agents in the field share data remotely. Amazon is also said to be sharing technology with the government which can "spot" and translate individual voices within lengthy intercepted recordings.

The report has raised eyebrows, as it is believed to be the first of its kind in which British classified material will be stored with a foreign entity. People aware of the scope of the deal told the paper that the information will be held on servers on British soil and Amazon will supposedly be prevented from accessing the intelligence.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 Birds of a feather.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-10-27 07:21|| 2021-10-27 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 will reportedly enable quicker cross-agency sharing of information

And for those that don't share at all?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-27 08:01|| 2021-10-27 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Data cloud giant Snowflake opens in Israel

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-27 08:02|| 2021-10-27 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Since it's apparent British Intel Agencies were assisting the Trump Russia misinformation ploy, it'd be too bad if this came back to bite them with timely leaks

Posted by Frank G 2021-10-27 08:53|| 2021-10-27 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 All of this 'cloud' system storage is being done to avoid spending time and money to develop internal organization communication. It will come back and bite them at some point. It's basically like using the postal service for interoffice mail.
I've seen numbers that indicate that more than half of ransomware attacks are injected at the up-down cloud links. And that's just the ones that are openly mentioned, alot of them are never heard from.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-27 10:55|| 2021-10-27 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 *Boggle* So "Chain of Custody" is broken at the start?

Posted by magpie 2021-10-27 14:05|| 2021-10-27 14:05|| Front Page Top

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