The Central Intelligence Agency is stepping up its reliance on Amazon’s burgeoning cloud computing infrastructure, as US spymasters look to use cloud-based commercial software in their analytical work.
In a rare public speech, Doug Wolfe, the CIA’s chief information officer, said on Tuesday that Ukraine and Iraq were examples of how increases in the “pace and complexity” of the agency’s mission were demanding the best information technology.
The CIA’s work with Amazon has been seen as an endorsement of the security and reliability of Jeff Bezos’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, whose clients include both public sector agencies and private companies.