Amazon Announce To Launch Secret Region Service To assist CIA

Last updated: July 5, 2023 Reading time: 2 minutes
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The popular cloud storage platform, Amazon has announced to launch a service designed to assist CIA and other intelligence agencies. Amazon was already been in news due to the Pentagon data leak, however, on Monday they introduced a so-called Secret Region service.

Unlike its name, the service is not really a fully secret one. It’s just called the secret one due to its ability to host software and data which is classified into the “secret” level. With such capability, the Amazon web service will become more effective for intelligence agencies that have to deal with the sensitive information regularly.

Amazon being the super cloud managing service has many regions among the newly launched Secret Region. The largest region of its network is US-East-1 which is located in Northern Virginia. Therefore, when the services of US-East-1 are down, all of its connected apps have to face the hassle.

Since 2014, Amazon has launched a top-secret region for the US intelligence community. This service was constructed especially for the US intelligence in an amount of $600 million. The new Secret Region is a part of same Amazon-CIA deal.