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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by jollybean on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:19PM (#27398628)
66 former government officials is a very small number.
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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by fireball_blaze on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:21PM (#27398650)
Curious -- based on what? Compared to other cloud providers? Compared to the normal # of gov officials at Seattle-based tech companies like Microsoft? As a % of overall work force?
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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by jollybean on Friday June 04, 2021 @06:08PM (#27399638)
The US government is the largest employer in the US, and Amazon is one of the largest private employer. Literally millions in the former, 100's of thousands in the later.

There will be considerable crossover.

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Re:AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are... by 0xbadcafebee on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:24PM (#27398675)
Seriously. Something like 5 million people work for the USG.
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