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Amazon's $600 Million CIA Deal Really Is For A Game-Changing 'Private' Cloud
http://www.businessinsider.com/details-emerge-on-amazons-cia-cloud-2013-6
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Amazon's $600 million contract to build a cloud for the CIA might not happen. But if it does, it will be something Amazon has never done before: a so-called 'private' cloud built in a customer's data center.
If the project proceeds as planned, that would be a game-changer in the fledgling $131 billion cloud computing market.
To recap: In March, news broke that Amazon won a massive contract with the CIA but the details were sketchy. Amazon and the CIA were tight-lipped.
AWS is the largest "public" cloud provider, meaning the hardware is stored in its own data center and many users share it. That's what keeps the costs down. Private clouds use the same technologies, but are located in a company's own data center and not shared with others.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/details-emerge-on-amazons-cia-cloud-2013-6#ixzz2XbvYvwfc
