What is the C2S?

About the Amazon Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) primary partition. Enterprise Vault supports Amazon Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) as primary storage, letting you store primary archived data in the AWS Government cloud for US Federal Agencies.

What is C2S and SC2S?

Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) and Secret Commercial Cloud Services (SC2S) are the secure AWS Secret Regions for Intelligence Community (IC) of U.S. Government. In GigaVUE-FM, a user with appropriate agency name, mission, and role can toggle to an AWS Secret Region (C2S or SC2S) for IC’s Cloud environment.

Does the CIA use Amazon Web Services?

Since 2013, the CIA’s cloud computing needs have been met by Amazon Web Services, with the cloud provider also hosting much of the wider intelligence community. “We are honored to continue to support the intelligence community as they expand their transformational use of cloud computing.

What is the contract between Bezos and the CIA?

Another win for Amazon AWS first inked a $600 million cloud contract with the CIA called C2S in 2013, through which it provided cloud services to the CIA and sister intelligence agencies, including the NSA.

Does the CIA use cloud computing?

The CIA was one of the government’s early pioneers in large-scale cloud deployment and has been working since 2013 with Amazon Web Services on its Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) contract.

What is C2E cloud?

The intelligence community has five cloud providers in place to soon deliver capabilities under its multibillion-dollar Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract. But now comes the hard part: incentivizing those companies to work together rather than compete for task orders under the larger contract.

What is AWS Secret region?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the launch of our second Top Secret Region—AWS Top Secret-West. AWS Top Secret-West is accredited to operate workloads at the Top Secret U.S. security classification level. The new Region adds multiple Availability Zones geographically separated from AWS Top Secret-East.

What is the C2E contract?

C2E represents the CIA’s next step in cloud computing, having awarded an existing contract—dubbed C2S—to Amazon Web Services in 2013 to provide a variety of cloud computing services for the CIA and intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency and FBI.

How long is a CIA contract?

5-year
You will be provided with progressively more on-the-job experiences and related training and development programs, enabling you to achieve your career goals while supporting mission needs. This position may require a 5-year Contract Term Agreement.

What does AWS C2S stand for?

The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. The AWS Secret Region is readily available to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) through the IC’s Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) contract with AWS.