[hailwren]

> Even the US intelligence community trusts that Amazon isn’t spying on the spies

I’m not sure what you mean by this, but it’s incorrect. Sensitive USG information is not processed on Amazon’s commercial offering.

> The Amazon-built cloud will operate behind the IC’s firewall, or more simply: It’s a public cloud built on private premises. [1]

I think this is what you’re referring to.

1 - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...

[jimhi]

They are referring to this https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/?whats-new-ess.sort-by=it...

[bradleyjg]

No, the grandparent poster was right. That’s other agencies, not the intelligence community. He’s right that the cloud I was thinking of is on prem but with Amazon personal (that are cleared).

So not the greatest analogy. But still I think most doctors, lawyers etc should be okay with their own cluster running in the cloud.