The CIA"s adoption of cloud computing is reportedly going well. The spy agency"s CIO (chief information officer) John Edwards said that its watershed deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the "best decision we ever made". Edwards was appointed as the spy agency"s CIO last year, during the US intelligence community"s (IC) shift to adopting cloud computing.
Edwards said that cloud computing has so far improved security, strengthened mission impact and helped avoid costs with maintaining legacy systems. Speaking at the AWS summit in Washington D.C., Edwards provided an unclassified peek at how America"s 17 intelligence agencies that are a part of the nation"s IC are using cloud computing. The CIO said that the spy agency"s cloud was "pretty close" to being invincible.
CIA wants to be like private firms and not like the government
"We want to be like commercial companies, not the government," Edwards said, Nextgov reported. "[Cloud] is the most innovative thing we"ve done, and it"s having a material impact on the CIA and IC."
According to Edwards, cloud adopting among US intelligence agencies has shot up to over 200% in the past few years. Since AWS" most significant service – the classified Marketplace – was launched last year, over 100 app developers and analysts can now try out new apps and determine if they meet mission needs. The service allows IC developers and experts to play around with properly vetted apps and seamlessly incorporate them into missions without having to go through lengthy acquisition processes.
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