Amazon Provides Cloud Infrastructure for CIA, NSA, and FBI Operations

Reporting detailed how Amazon Web Services had become the primary cloud infrastructure provider for the CIA, NSA, and FBI through a series of contracts totaling over $10 billion, creating a single commercial vendor with access to the most sensitive classified operations of all three agencies. The arrangement raised questions about vendor concentration risk, accountability gaps, and the effective privatization of core intelligence infrastructure. No competitive re-bid had been conducted since the original 2013 CIA contract.