☁️Amazon's $10 Billion NSA "WildandStormy" Intelligence Contract
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Amazon Web Services hosts NSA's most sensitive surveillance data through the $10 billion "WildandStormy" contract, processing signals intelligence and classified information. The same infrastructure powers commercial services and government surveillance.
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Why This Matters
The NSA outsourced spying to Amazon:
America's most sensitive surveillance operations now run through private corporate infrastructure, meaning taxpayers pay Amazon to process government spying data
Amazon employees access state secrets:
Company workers gain security clearances for classified intelligence while Amazon maintains commercial relationships with foreign governments and competitors
Shopping data mixes with spy data:
AWS processes both commercial information (purchases, cloud storage) and government surveillance using the same infrastructure, personnel, and security protocols
Intelligence operations become vulnerable:
Centralizing spy operations in commercial cloud systems creates single points of failure that foreign adversaries could exploit for massive intelligence breaches
Congress loses oversight of intelligence:
When spy agencies outsource operations to private companies, lawmakers cannot monitor activities and citizens lose accountability mechanisms for surveillance programs
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Microsoft's bid protest against the WildandStormy contract was sustained by which oversight body?
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What type of intelligence data does AWS process under the WildandStormy contract?
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How many years of intelligence community cloud experience does AWS leverage for the NSA contract?
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What criticism did experts raise about NSA's single-award cloud contract approach?
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Which intelligence agencies besides the NSA use AWS cloud services through the C2E contract?
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Democratic critics argue the AWS intelligence contracts represent what concerning trend?
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AWS maintains separate infrastructure for commercial customers versus intelligence community operations.
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