Amazon is partnering with U.S. government spy agencies to offer a new computer data storage service: Amazon Web Services Secret Region. This week, the Department of Defense cleared Amazon to offer the cloud storage service for some of the “military and Pentagon’s most sensitive, unclassified information.”
“This further bolsters AWS as an industry leader in helping support the DoD’s critical mission in protecting our security,” Amazon said in a statement. “The AWS services support a variety of DoD workloads, including workloads containing sensitive controlled unclassified information and National Security Systems information.”
The service falls under an existing $600 million Amazon contract with intelligence agencies, according to published reports.
The new development comes as Amazon faces ongoing questions about the security of its data storage systems. Users of Amazon’s cloud-based storage service were able to leave sensitive information on the system without password protection. In another case, the Defense Department exposed at least “1.8 billion posts of scraped internet content over the past eight years, including content captured from news sites, comment sections, web forums, and social media sites like Facebook.”
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