Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are...
by johncessna on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:04PM
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JEDI going to MS is confusing until you realize that O365 was thrown into the MS offering. The US government runs on Microsoft.
Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are...
by hulitu on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:58PM
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> Not that any of this is incorrect, but there are two important bits of context to add here:
> -Not all DoD hires are for the purpose of lobbying. A lot of the time it’s just because they already have the TS/SCI clearance which is necessary for working on servers in the government.
Of course not. Only the managers are for lobying. ( which is corruption with a differrent name). It does help to hire people which can influence the government.
-Not all DoD hires are for the purpose of lobbying. A lot of the time it’s just because they already have the TS/SCI clearance which is necessary for working on servers in the government-only datacenters, and hiring people who have it already is a lot easier than getting a new hire and waiting the multiple years to get clearance (seriously: it’s a pain in the ass, especially when you consider that you have to pass drug tests including THC, which is an increasingly rare thing to find among developer-types) - Amazon’s competition in this space is mainly Microsoft, who does the exact same thing. Indeed, part of the reason Amazon lost the JEDI contract is probably because Microsoft had been playing the ‘hire former Pentagon suits’ game for much longer.