Don't mistake cloud providers for the Swiss; they aren't neutral
Amazon is a prominent company in the U.S. Its cloud servers host the U.S. government's Recovery.gov stimulus spending Web site, and it is competing for even more federal business. It also spent about $1.5 million this year on lobbying in Washington, according to OpenSecrets.org.
So when U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Ind.-Conn.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called Amazon officials this week to complain about the company's decision to host WikiLeaks on its cloud servers, Amazon quickly pulled the plug .
Managing Network Bandwidth to Maximize Performance: Download nowWikiLeaks, which earlier this week made public a huge collection of confidential U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, had moved to Amazon's service on Monday after it was hit with aggressive denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The DoS attacks took the site offline for several hours on Monday and hammered it again on Tuesday .
After the Amazon move, a Swedish firm, Bahnhof Internet AB, in Uppsala, began hosting the WikiLeaks site.
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Source: computerworld.com
By: Patrick Thibodeau
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