If they didn't nobody would know about it. It's not like Amazon has a big list of email addresses of people who have Secret data that they might want to put on the cloud. Even if they did have a list of government people like that, most of the people interested in this service are contractors who don't officially work for the government.

The government doesn't work like those spy movies where everybody knows everything the instant it happens. It's more like a big bloated corporation with thousands of subcontractors and generally lousy communication all around.

There’s hardly anyone in tech with a clearance in dc who didn’t know this was coming. They’re recruiting like crazy for it.

Just because it's called AWS "Secret", it doesn't mean it has to be a secret :)

Secrecy as a Service.

More like Compartmentalization, Compliance, and Control as a Service

What's the point of keeping it secret?

OPSEC

Investors?

What's the point of hiding it's existence? (Security by obscurity doesn't work).

It's actually a giant honeypot.

Contractors.