German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud

Re:German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud by taspeotis on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:35AM (#19293782)

> Federal Police are using a cloud service from Amazon to store videos because the internet company is the only one in Germany with a certificate from the Federal Office for Information Security.

> "At the moment there is no state infrastructure available that meets the demand," the Federal Police said.

TL;DR: Government department uses an approved vendor, news at 11.

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Re:German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud by drieddust on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:37AM (#19293980)

This might be due to my limited experience in Germany but this seems to be the norm. Competition is not that fierce and customers have few or no options. I don't know if it's due to rigid regulations or business owners know customers don't have many options.

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Re:German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud by Mirioron on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:22AM (#19293927)

I think what's much more interesting is that the only approved vendor is Amazon.

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Re:German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud by expertentipp on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:45AM (#19294009)

I see nothing strange in it. German businesses consider „cloud” and internet in general as dumb and obsolete cost inducing topic. I can totally imagine no local provider being able to comply.

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