All posts tagged "Government"
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CIS Hardened Images Arrive On AWS GovCloud Marketplace
US government customers now finally have access to securely configured virtual images, as the CIS Hardened Images are now available in the AWS GovCloud Marketplace....
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Pentagon Slashes Cloud Contract Awarded To An AWS Partner
The criticism came swift and fast. Industry officials feared of AWS having an inside track with Pentagon, which has been moving its computing systems to...
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AWS Acquires Sqrrl
What secrecy is this! Amazon Web Services has acquired Sqrrl, a security startup that is said to have NSA roots, with the founders previously having...
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AWS Considering Argentina, Chile For New Datacenter
Why choose? Looks like AWS has a decision to make. The cloud giant is expanding its presence with a new datacenter in South America, and...
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Open AWS S3 Bucket Exposes 123 Million US Households
Year end surprise? A cloud based data repository belonging to Alteryx has been found to publicly expose datasets from its partners, Experian and the US...
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AWS Opens Second Region In China
From denying that it is exiting China one month, to opening its second region there the next, it has been a wild ride for AWS...
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AWS Now Certified For Indian Government Customers
AWS has become the first global cloud service provider for delivering public cloud servers to government customers in India, the company announced today. Amazon Internet...
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AWS Launches Secret Region For US Intelligence Agencies
Six years after introducing a cloud datacenter region for public sector customers, AWS has launched cloud service for US intelligence agencies, and government outfits sufficient...
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Massive US Pentagon Data Left Exposed On AWS S3
There are troves, and then there is this. More than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many of them related to people in the US....
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ABC Confirms AWS S3 Data Leak
Here we go again! Australian Broadcasting Corporation, better known as ABC, is the latest organization to confirm a data leak when an unsecured AWS S3...
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No, AWS Isn’t Exiting China
AWS exiting China? Not quite. Amazon Web Services, while denying reports that it is withdrawing its business in the country, has admitted that it has...
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Singapore Moves Public Sector Websites To AWS
Singapore is going all in! The Singapore government has picked up pace of its AWS migration, which began in 2016, and has now moved a...
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HMRC Boss Defends Shift To AWS
The story has blown up! The Permanent Secretary at HMRC has defended the decision of the UK tax authority to ditch a small British cloud...
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Salesforce Goes Live On AWS In Australia
The big moment is here! In a deal that is very likely to expand its customer base in Australia, CRM provider Salesforce is now live...
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AWS Now Authorized For Sensitive US Department Of Defense Data
Amazon has become the third company with this prestigious clearance, as AWS achieved the Department of Defense Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization. Which is to...
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AWS To Increase Cloud Infrastructure Investment In Australia
AWS and Microsoft are vying for some government business as ACT has put underway a plan for digital transformation within the next four years, with...
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Calls In UK For Amazon Boycott Amid Tax Tussle
The UK government’s favorite cloud provider has come under fire in tax controversy. Amazon, the parent company of AWS, has, once again, been in the...
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Home Office All Set For AWS Migration
The Home Office is currently looking for an architect and developers to oversee the delivery of its new AWS environment, with plans to have the...
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AWS Bows Down To Censors In China
Guess if you want access to a country, you have to follow their rules. And Amazon knows this, as it has asked AWS customers in...
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AWS Sees Procurement As The Biggest Barrier To Cloud Adoption
It was not too long ago that companies and organizations saw security as the biggest barrier to cloud adoption, but the market has matured now,...
