According to Business Insider, the US Federal Reserve inspected Amazon’s cloud data centers earlier this year to examine their reliability and security. 

Amazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, is responsible for handling a ton of sensitive user information

As Capital One becomes yet another casualty of a cyber security attack, companies need to think hard about how their data is kept safe in the cloud, reports Tech Crunch. 

The recently reported Capital One data breach has once again turned the technology world’s attention to cloud security

According to the Register, the Defense Department is looking into whether their was bias in favor of Amazon in the bidding for its billion dollar cloud contract. 

The Pentagon is putting its controversial winner-takes-all $10bn cloud contract, dubbed JEDI, on hold as it investigates whether the whole process was biased in favor of Amazon