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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by mrep on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:42PM (#16461332)
For a contract that big, AWS will build you your own private datacenter. US intelligence bought one themselves back in 2013 [0] and AWS just built a second one for them (different security clearance for each)[1].

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...

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