I spy Amazon: Britain’s ‘most classified material’ to be stored in AWS cloud

Companies in the news include AWS, Facebook and Gieves & Hawkes

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GCHQ headquarters in Cheltenham
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1. Amazon: I spy

Amazon seems to do everything else. So why not pay it to look after this country’s intelligence secrets? That seems to be the thinking at GCHQ which – with its sister agencies MI5 and MI6 – has opted to entrust “Britain’s most classified material” to the US tech giant, said Sam Hall in The Daily Telegraph; or, more specifically, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud computing arm, in a deal reportedly worth between £500m and £1bn over the next ten years.

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