Comment on Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of IndividualsparentComments−cpr11yYes, there's a whole portion of the Amazon Cloud that's run entirely for government (a family member is a higher-up at AWS Gov), and I have to assume they're also running private clouds with physical security, but I have no idea.−toomuchtodo11yIt's the GovCloud AWS region.http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/−emidln11yIIRC, GovCloud is available for general purpose usage by private companies, it's just expensive and not as flexible.
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Yes, there's a whole portion of the Amazon Cloud that's run entirely for government (a family member is a higher-up at AWS Gov), and I have to assume they're also running private clouds with physical security, but I have no idea.
It's the GovCloud AWS region.
http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/
IIRC, GovCloud is available for general purpose usage by private companies, it's just expensive and not as flexible.