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I can tell you that you know absolutely nothing about AWS. What I think you are referring to is “GovCloud”. The government does absolutely no more due diligence for GovCloud implementations.

The only thing that you have to do to be eligible to work on a GovCloud project is be a US citizen.

There is a separate “secret cloud” that’s not secret. But has higher security requirements.

Source: former AWS ProServe employee.

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I specifically didn't discuss GovCloud or classified regions or other AWS specific stuff because because the original article was not clear about what "private AWS cloud" meant in terms of the SSA.

You're leaping to the conclusion that it was GovCloud. I don't assume that and the article didn't say it.

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There is no such thing as a “private AWS cloud” unless they are talking about AWS Outposts that are on prem. DOGE was fast and loose with security and incompetent. I worked with enough government agencies - I worked under WWPS - to know they are all mostly incompetent. If they weren’t, they would be making twice as much in the private sector.

There is no way in the world that the CIA would give DOGE access to the higher security secret cloud.

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