The Department of Defense is reportedly close to giving a massive contract to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to conduct and manage all the cloud computing of classified and non-classified data.  This is a big problem because it raises two issues: national defense security and cronyism. On April 4, Business Insider reported that the Department of Defense is "close to awarding a cloud-services contract worth as much as $10 billion to Amazon, even as President Donald Trump attacks the e-commerce giant from the White House, according to a source with knowledge of the deal."  This is a deal that is expected to be upwards of $10 billion because the contract may last past ten years. The security concern is that this contract may hurt national security by relying on one company for the whole contract.  Multiple cloud providers, rather than one company, are preferable to protect data with redundancy.  The...(Read Full Article)