EDIT: Parent post had posited that the government couldn't just spool up AWS servers like the rest of us, so I provided that link just because they technically could (not saying that it would have been a good choice for something of this scale or purpose)
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http://aws.amazon.com/federal/
EDIT: Parent post had posited that the government couldn't just spool up AWS servers like the rest of us, so I provided that link just because they technically could (not saying that it would have been a good choice for something of this scale or purpose)
Not only that, but Obama's campaign used AWS heavily (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/how-te...).
Campaign is irrelevant to actual government work.
Technology or otherwise.