AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are from Dept of Defense

Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by xkjkls on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:52PM (#27398343)

I formerly worked in AWS on a team that had occasional minor need to deploy and make changes to the GovCloud. I was the only US Citizen on my team and was required for every single deployment.

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by whoknew1122 on Friday June 04, 2021 @06:02PM (#27399586)

Yup. Not only do you have to be a US Citizen, but you also have to be on US soil. So if you're on vacation internationally? Can't make that change.

AWS takes that stuff very seriously.

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by atatatat on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:09AM (#27402393)

Can you tell me what country I have to be in to cancel my services and stop being billed?

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by shalmanese on Sunday June 06, 2021 @12:41AM (#27410839)

Iran

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by bunfunton on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:36AM (#27402519)

Suuuuure. Whoops and there goes a vpn tunnel with a residential endpoint.

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by prpl on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:08AM (#27402388)

That’s not particularly surprising. I spent a lot of time on an army base in mid aughts as an undergrad for a similar reason, decommissioning an astrophysics project.

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by austincheney on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:58PM (#27399556)

I can only imagine turning off the lights and sending people home in those moments where you have a late night family emergency.

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by xkjkls on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:55AM (#27424040)

pretty much all of the times I was needed were scheduled, so there was rarely surprises.

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by arcanus on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:40PM (#27399391)

Did this give you incredible leverage for performance reviews, raises, etc?

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by xkjkls on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:54AM (#27424036)

none at all; this task was just literally a "hit the button".

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