Amazon Launches Dedicated Cloud Service for the U.S. Government

"Such as we are early explorers of outer space, JPL have been early explorers of the cloud computing space," said Tomas Soderstrom, chief research officer in the Office of the CIO at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. " We've leveraged AWS in our missions for a few years now and were the first to use cloud computing for daily operations. By working with cloud computing providers just as AWS, we gain the flexibility to move quickly, acquire IT resources on-demand and save money by paying only for the resources we use. This implements the JPL CIO, Jim Rinaldi's, vision of provisioning instead of procuring hardware. As we move more workloads into the cloud, we look forward to leveraging ITAR compliant clouds, just as the new AWS GovCloud for our compliance-dependent projects so we can continue to look to the cloud first for furthermore missions."

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