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Amazon AWS: Good enough for the CIA
Amazon AWS: Good enough for the CIA
Leena Rao has a fascinating background story at Fortune on Amazon Web Services, built around a profile of its leader, Senior Vice President Andy Jassy. It’s worth reading the whole thing, but this bit was particularly interesting:
Netflix’s adoption also gave other big companies and institutions the confidence to try AWS. Its heavyweight corporate customers now include Samsung, Comcast, and pharmaceutical giant Novartis, to name just a few. In 2013, AWS won a contract from the Central Intelligence Agency—a classified deal that became public knowledge when a competitor sued the government over it. Once that news broke, Jassy recalls, “a lot of companies would say, ‘Well, if the security and performance is good [enough] for the CIA, then it’s probably good enough for us.’ ”
Read about the original disclosure of the deal over at Federal Computing World.
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Apple sold 5.7 million tablets in the U.S. last quarter, court documents show. Samsung sold 37,000
Apple sold 5.7 million tablets in the U.S. last quarter, court documents show. Samsung sold 37,000
Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s article at Fortune is one of many today about the revelations coming out of the Apple v. Samsung trial. But his headline is the main reason I had to share this link. It must feel like a punch in the gut for Samsung executives to see those numbers juxtaposed.