There was a precious order before me.
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Summary: As the third largest cloud service provider in the world, Google Cloud recently signed a seven-figure amount contract with the defense innovation department, which will use multi-cloud management solutions to ensure the network security of the Ministry of Defense. This is a year after the abandonment of tens of billions of orders, Google has once again initiated cooperation with the Ministry of Defense.
Keyword: Google Cloud US Department of Defense Cloud Computing
On May 20th, Google Cloud and the U.S. Defense Innovation Department (DIU) reached a cooperation agreement on cyber security with an amount of seven million dollars.
This is also after the Maven project was stopped by a boycott, Google reacquired the US Department of Defense purchase order.
Regain the Ministry of Defense order: do not engage in military industry and engage in the Internet
Google Cloud announced in its official blog that it will cooperate with DIU, a department of the Ministry of Defense, to use technologies such as Anthos to help each other detect, defend, and respond to cybersecurity threats.
Google Cloud Official Website Blog Announces Cooperation
What Google Cloud has to do is to deploy a multi-cloud architecture solution, so that DIU can run Web services and applications on Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure, while being able to perform centralized management.
It is reported that this solution will provide real-time network monitoring, access control, and complete audit trails, enabling DIU to ensure the safe conduct of network tasks without sacrificing performance and speed.
The program will start with three parts: Anthos for multi-cloud deployment, Istio for security service communication, and security company Netskope will be responsible for cloud security.
Anthos is specially launched for hybrid cloud solutions
According to media Axios reports, the specific amount of this cooperation agreement is unknown, but the number has reached 7 digits, more than one million US dollars.
A large order was abandoned due to thousands of employees protesting
In March 2018, the technology blog Gizmodo revealed that Google and the Ministry of Defense secretly cooperated, using the technology for military purposes.
This project, called Maven, uses AI technology to analyze the drone’s lens images to help the military quickly detect various target objects, which may be subsequently applied to operations.
The perspective of the theater as seen in military drones
As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a huge response both inside and outside Google.
In April 2018, more than 3,000 Google employees signed a joint email to publish the letter, requesting Google to withdraw from the project;
In May, more than a dozen employees filed for leaving as protests, arguing that Google had violated their original intentions.
A large number of employees participated in the protest and cite the slogan of Do not beevil
Due to public opinion and protests from internal employees, Google ’s top executives chose to compromise and announced in 201