More than four years have passed since the CIA announced its watershed deal with Amazon Web Services to build out a private cloud for the intelligence community. According to CIA CIO John Edwards, “it’s the best decision we’ve ever made.”
“It’s the most innovative thing we’ve ever done,” Edwards said in a June 14 speech at AWS’ Public Sector Summit. “It is having a material impact on both the CIA and the IC.”
Dubbed Commercial Cloud Services (C2S), the 10-year, $600 million contract essentially put an entire AWS cloud region on CIA premises.
