Amazon Altas

Amazon Altas Data Center Map Released | Wikileaks #questofrandomclues
https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/

The record from overdue 2015 lists the addresses and also a few operational details of more than one hundred information centres spread across fifteen cities in nine nations.  To accompany this record, WikiLeaks also made a map showing where Amazon's information centers are situated.

Amazon, that's the most significant cloud supplier, is notoriously secretive about the exact locations of its information centres.  Even though a few are openly connected to Amazon, this is the exception as opposed to the norm.  More frequently, Amazon works out of information centres owned by other businesses with very little sign that Amazon itself relies there also or conducts its own information centers under-less-identifiable subsidiaries like VaData, Inc..   By way of instance, during its IAD77 information centre, the record says that"Amazon is called'Vandalay Industries' on badges and most of correspondence with construction manager".

 In 2017, Amazon declared the AWS Secret Region, which permits storage of information categorized to the Secret amount by a wider variety of companies and agencies.  Amazon also operates a particular GovCloud area for US Government agencies hosting unclassified details.

Presently, Amazon is among the primary contenders for an around $10 billion contract to construct a personal cloud to the Department of Defense.  Amazon is one of the only firms with the certificates necessary to sponsor classified information in the cloud.  The Defense Department is searching for a single supplier and other businesses, such as Oracle and IBM, have complained that the prerequisites kindly prefer Amazon.  Bids with this contract are expected tomorrow.

While one of the advantages of the cloud would be that the capability to increase reliability via geographical distribution of computing tools, cloud infrastructure is unexpectedly centralised concerning legal control.  Only a couple companies and their subsidiaries operate nearly all cloud computing infrastructure across the globe.  Of them, Amazon is the largest by far, with current market study demonstrating that Amazon accounts for 34 percent of their cloud infrastructure solutions marketplace.

Until today, this cloud infrastructure commanded by Amazon was mostly hidden, with just the overall geographical areas of the information centres publicised.  While Amazon's cloud is comprised of bodily places, signs of the occurrence of these areas are mostly buried in government documents or made observable just when cloud infrastructure fails because of natural disasters or other issues from the physical universe.

From the method of dispelling the puzzle around the areas of Amazon's data centres, WikiLeaks turned this record into a mystery game, the Quest of Random Clues.  The objective of the game was supposed to encourage individuals to explore these data facilities in an enjoyable and fascinating manner, while highlighting associated problems like contracts with the intelligence community, Amazon's complex company structures, as well as the physicality of the cloud.