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Amazon's Cloud Business Giving Federal Agencies Up To $1 Billion In Discounts (cnbc.com)

(Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD) from the would-you-look-at-that dept.)


Amazon Web Services has struck a deal with the U.S. government to [1]provide up to $1 billion in cloud service discounts through 2028 . CNBC reports:

> The agreement is expected to speed up migration to the cloud, as well as adoption of artificial intelligence tools, the General Services Administration said. "AWS's partnership with GSA demonstrates a shared public-private commitment to enhancing America's AI leadership," the agency said in a release.

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> Amazon's cloud boss, Matt Garman, hailed the agreement as a "significant milestone in the large-scale digital transformation of government services." The discounts aggregated across federal agencies include credits to use AWS' cloud infrastructure, modernization programs and training services, as well as incentives for "direct partnership."

Further reading: [2]OpenAI Offers ChatGPT To US Federal Agencies for $1 a Year



[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/amazon-aws-federal-discounts.html

[2] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/06/1433258/openai-offers-chatgpt-to-us-federal-agencies-for-1-a-year


Kowtow (Score:2, Troll)

by fjo3 ( 1399739 )

"public-private" business? I always hesitate before describing Trump as a fascist, but one of the defining characteristics of a fascist regime is public businesses being controlled, but not outright owned, by the government. While this is technically a voluntary action on behalf of Amazon, we all know the company would not be doing this if anyone else was POTUS. Companies are frightened of this wildly unpredictable administration, and I do not blame them for mitigating risk in any ways that they can.

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by ndsurvivor ( 891239 )

That was my first thought, my second is that all of the personal data that we provided to the Government will on AWS and integrated into their AI. God help us all.

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by srmalloy ( 263556 )

Amazon cloud services... where government data lives on hardware owned and controlled by Amazon... who therefore owns the data, because they're capable of destroying it, copying it, altering it, or basically doing whatever they want with it. Because you trust Amazon to adhere strictly to the security policies that prevent them from accessing the data stored there, right?

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by Gilgaron ( 575091 )

If it is their FedRamp data centers then it was already part of the plan, but if it is the public stuff they're offering then it isn't really fit to use.

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by Anonymous Coward

I always hesitate before describing Trump as a fascist

Fact check: FALSE

we all know the company would not be doing this if anyone else was POTUS

Amazon never tried getting government contracts before Trump?

You deluded Trump Derangement clowns expose yourselves with a new lie every day.

Kiss it (Score:2)

by guygo ( 894298 )

Bezos is SUCH a kiss-*ss.

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by leonbev ( 111395 )

AWS probably needs to take some pretty drastic steps to inflate their user numbers at this point. Microsoft Azure is starting to eat away at their business, and the recent layoffs are having a serious impact on their customer support. I'm getting to the point where I don't even bother opening AWS support tickets at this point, because the canned responses that I'm getting back are useless. I could have got back better answers asking ChatGPT.

You had mail. Paul read it, so ask him what it said.