The Internet giant Amazon, through its subsidiary cloud computing ( "
cloud
") AWS, spent a confidential data storage contract with the British secret service, writes the Financial Times Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the .
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The contract is intended in particular to boost data analysis and artificial intelligence for espionage by the British electronic intelligence service GCHQ and the secret service agencies MI5 and MI6 or other departments of the Ministry of Defense during joint operations, adds the financial daily.
A ten-year billion contract
The contract is estimated to be between £ 500m and £ 1bn over the next decade, according to FT sources, who say the data is believed to be held in the UK, and Amazon will not be there. access.
This information could, however, revive the debate on the sovereignty of the United Kingdom over its strategic industries, while the government is said to be considering excluding the Chinese CGN from the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project, after having excluded the equipment manufacturer. Huawei telecoms from the country's 5G network.
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Amazon and GCHQ did not immediately respond to AFP's requests for information and the Defense Ministry did not comment.