Amazon Launches Government-Oriented Cloud Computing Service

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Amazon Launches Government-Oriented Cloud Computing Service

August 17, 2011 No Comments

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Three months after America’s first chief technology officer recommended that the federal government move as much of its IT infrastructure to the cloud as possible in order to save a few billion dollars, cloud provider Amazon says it has just such a service ready to roll. Amazon announced today the launch of GovCloud, a “region” within its Amazon Web Services aimed specifically at U.S. government agencies and their security needs.