Report: Amazon Is Building the CIA's New Cloud Computing System [Gizmodo]

Sign of the times

"The CIA has reportedly signed a massive cloud computing deal with Amazon, worth up to $600 million over the next 10 years.
FCW reports that its sources have told it Amazon will build a private cloud infrastructure for the CIA, to help it "keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA's previous cloud efforts"."

Report: Amazon Is Building the CIA's New Cloud Computing System