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The new collaboration builds on Anthropic's earlier integration of Claude into AWS GovCloud, a service built for government cloud computing.

Why does the government need cloud services? Why does it need IT anyway? In the 1990s everything was paper and the services actually worked. Now things are in "the cloud". In the EU you get new digital identity schemes every year and it takes three months to register a new address (used to take one day in the paper days).

The next step is that AWS will scan S3 data used to train this surveillance model.

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I recently moved to the EU from Africa.

It took me like 10 minutes online get myself set up for tax, and to get the correct tax credits applied to my profile. My next payslip had all the right deductions and refunds in place with zero fuss.

Getting my foreign marriage registered for joint tax assessments was like 5 minutes online.

Getting my foreign drivers license exchanged for a local one was a quick online application and an in person visit where they verified my documents. Everything after that was electronic.

Your glasses must be extra rose couloured if you think that the paper-based Vorgon-inspired hellhole that is/was bureaucratic government internal affairs of the 90s is in any way better than what we have today.

Good that it worked out for you. Now try to register an apartment in Berlin or get a new id card.

Nothing like being lectured from an immigrant or long term expat from Africa how the state of one's own country was in 1990 and now.

Rude

Adding red tape to processes is a decision, not a consequence of digitalization.

We don't live in the same world as the 1990s, we live in a world that's faster than ever before.

We can't achieve what's possible by sending in handwritten forms, it's just not gonna do it. and while governments are anything but efficient they are more efficient with digital workflows.

How is the world faster? In 1990 there were the same ICE/TGV trains, there was Concorde, the population size did not change much.

This is a valid question. Thinking back to the freeway system that was built in a few decades, I can’t help but be cynical when I see a single interchange in a city take 10 years to build. Many things (not all of course) seem to take longer to accomplish.

Any company that does US defense work has to use govcloud

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