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UK quality agencies person entrusted classified information to Amazon's unreality computing limb AWS successful a woody designed to vastly velocity up their espionage capabilities, the Financial Times reported connected Tuesday.
The concealed declaration was signed this twelvemonth and experts estimation its worth astatine £500 cardinal ($690 million) to £1 billion, the paper said, citing radical acquainted with the discussions.
It was said to beryllium spearheaded by Britain's cybersecurity bureau GCHQ, which had wanted to find a UK unreality supplier but decided that nary had the requisite capableness arsenic Amazon Web Services.
The statement reportedly covers MI5, the UK's home information service, and MI6, its overseas arm, arsenic good arsenic different authorities branches.
Amazon itself volition not person entree to the data, according to the report.
It volition let UK intelligence "to get accusation from immense amounts of information successful minutes, alternatively than successful weeks and months", Ciaran Martin, formerly caput of GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre, told the FT.
There was nary remark from Amazon, GCHQ oregon the UK government.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) struck a unreality information woody with AWS successful 2013 and past twelvemonth expanded the declaration to let bids from Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.
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