Cloud Computing: Amazon CTO says business unaffected by Snowden revelations

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: James Niccolai.

Breaking with other players in the IT industry, Amazon’s CTO has downplayed any impact of the Edward Snowden revelations on its international business. "Growth outside the U.S. is as strong as it ever was," CTO Werner Vogels said in an onstage interview at the Gigaom Structure conference in San Francisco Wednesday.

Cisco and a few other vendors have complained that revelations about surveillance by the National Security Agency have eroded trust in U.S. technology firms overseas, harming their businesses. Cisco CEO John Chambers even complained to President Barack Obama, after reports that the NSA had intercepted routers en route to customers to plant surveillance tools…

Those concerns haven’t affected Amazon and may even have helped the company, according to Vogels, because it leads to a conversation about the security of its platform. He maintained that Amazon security tools like Cloud HSM allow customers to protect access to their data. "if you encrypt your data, you’re the one who has full control over it," he said…

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