Cloud-Computing

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community

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Oracle announced on August 15, 2023, that its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) received authority to operate Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) from the 18-agency Intelligence Community, marking a major expansion of Oracle’s access to the nation’s most classified …

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Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale

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By 2023, Amazon Web Services has consolidated its position as the dominant cloud infrastructure provider for the U.S. government, with multi-billion dollar contracts across the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and civilian agencies creating unprecedented government dependence on a …

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Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership

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TikTok and Oracle formally launched “Project Texas” in July 2022, a comprehensive data isolation initiative designed to address U.S. national security concerns by migrating all American user data to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and establishing new corporate structures to limit …

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Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions

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The U.S. Department of Defense granted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) authority to operate (ATO) for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) missions on February 15, 2022, authorizing Oracle to host and process some of the Pentagon’s most …

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Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability

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The Defense Department cancels the controversial $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) cloud computing contract previously awarded to Microsoft in 2019, ending two years of bitter litigation with Amazon Web Services. The Pentagon announces a new multi-vendor procurement approach …

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CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM

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The Central Intelligence Agency awarded its Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract to five major technology companies—Oracle, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, and IBM—on November 20, 2020. The multi-cloud contract, valued at tens of billions of dollars over a 15-year period, represents …

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Pentagon Awards $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft Over Amazon

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The Pentagon awards the $10 billion, 10-year Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract to Microsoft, stunning observers who widely expected Amazon Web Services to win based on its established relationship with the intelligence community through the CIA’s C2S contract. Under …

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Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community

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Amazon Web Services unveils a dedicated cloud computing region specifically designed to host classified government data at the “Secret” classification level, serving the CIA and all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. This AWS Secret Region operates as an air-gapped, isolated infrastructure …

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Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract

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Amazon Web Services wins a $600 million contract to build a private cloud computing infrastructure for the Central Intelligence Agency, marking the CIA’s first major cloud computing contract and establishing Amazon as a central infrastructure provider for the U.S. intelligence community. The …

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