June 7, 2025
Amazon hosts NSA surveillance data through $10 billion "WildandStormy" contract
Amazon wins $10 billion contract to host NSA's most sensitive surveillance data in commercial cloud
🛡️National Security📜Constitutional Law✊Civil Rights
WildandStormy contract valued at up to $10 billion
First awarded to AWS in July 2021
Re-awarded to AWS in April 2022 after Microsoft protest and GAO review
GAO found NSA improperly assessed Microsoft technical proposals
NSA CIO Scott Fear confirmed 3-4 years into cloud migration as of September 2024
AWS held prior $600 million CIA contract since 2013
Contract moves NSA signals intelligence data to commercial cloud infrastructure
🛡️National Security📜Constitutional Law✊Civil Rights
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How many years of intelligence community cloud experience does AWS leverage for the NSA contract?
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The Intelligence Community GovCloud represents the NSA's classified data repository modernization effort.
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Which intelligence agencies besides the NSA use AWS cloud services through the C2E contract?
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The NSA's Hybrid Compute Initiative aims to move data from internal servers to what type of infrastructure?
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What type of intelligence data does AWS process under the WildandStormy contract?
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Amazon Web Services
Won and holds the WildandStormy contract
National Security Agency
Agency moving intelligence data to cloud
Scott Fear
NSA Chief Information Officer overseeing migration
Microsoft
Competitor that protested the original award
Government Accountability Office
Found flaws in original NSA procurement