Why is Amazon building a ‘top secret’ $2 billion cloud for Australia’s military intelligence?
- Written by: David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
PopTika/ShutterstockAmazon has secured a A$2 billion contract with the Australian Signals Directorate – the agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence and information security. A local subsidiary of Amazon Web Services will build a Top Secret Cloud to provide secure data storage for military intelligence.
The deal will securely...