Google Cloud Earns Defense Contract Win For Anthos Multi-Cloud Management Tool

Google today announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). "While the company would not get specific about the number, the new contract involves using Anthos, the tool the company announced last year to secure DIU's multi-cloud environment," reports TechCrunch. From the report: In spite of the JEDI contract involving a single vendor, the DoD has always used solutions from all three major cloud vendors -- Amazon, Microsoft and Google -- and this solution will provide a way to monitor security across all three environments, according to the company. "Multi-cloud is the future. The majority of commercial businesses run multi-cloud environments securely and seamlessly, and this is now coming to the federal government as well," Mike Daniels, VP of Global Public Sector at Google Cloud told TechCrunch.

The idea is to manage security across three environments with help from cloud security vendor Netskope, which is also part of the deal. "The multi-cloud solution will be built on Anthos, allowing DIU to run web services and applications across Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure -- while being centrally managed from the Google Cloud Console," the company wrote in a statement. Daniels says that while this is a deal with DIU, he could see it expanding to other parts of DoD. "This is a contract with the DIU, but our expectation is that the DoD will look at the project as a model for how to implement their own security posture."

Aren't they through with this stuff?

[Jarwulf]

Didn't they make a big dog and pony show of not working with military (at least from the US) because a bunch of their more deadweight employees whined about it not too long ago? Was it just a big lie they had no intention of fulfilling?

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[ZombieCatInABox]

So according to you, employees with a sense of morality and ethics are "deadweight" ?

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[guruevi]

Morality and ethics can be wrong and is entirely subjective.

memorable relations

[Jennyyy18]

You wants the short but memorable relations. We will have fun this night! I'm waiting >> https://is.gd/user5386 [is.gd]

They don't trust MS

[gtall]

This appears to be an effort to not trust MS and require a third party to watch them. Good for DIU.

Why Azure?

[Murdoch5]

Azure is okay, but it has a serious number of critical flaws / bugs that leave it more at the beta or late alpha stage. I've honestly lost count as to the number of bugs / flaws we've filed with Microsoft over broken crap in Azure, and as of yesterday we've decided to stop filing bugs / flaws because their customer service simply can't handle anything more difficult then a working Hello World program.

We've been able to show them some of the flaws over video calls, for them to come back and rename the flaw to a feature, then try to explain it away as a development choice. The latest "feature" we've discovered is that the Cost Management area doesn't line up with the Invoice area for past payments, which is causing serious problems trying to figure out the exact amount we've spent. Which in our case is important, because due to another bug which incorrectly and automatically provisions DB's in premium tiers, we're seeking refunds, which can no longer be properly calculated or tracked.

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[ZombieCatInABox]

And yet, despite all of this, you seem to keep using Azure...

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[Murdoch5]

Yes, because my boss won't let me stand up infrastructure and move our service to our own person cloud through OVH. I've even demoed this on small scale, as I only have two servers, and it was successful and massively more performant vs the cost. Although given the last two / three weeks, I think he's getting ready to jump ship, as yesterday no one could answer a simple question about assigning permissions to subscriptions, and a certain bug they assert is a feature that disallows what we're trying to do.

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[liquid_schwartz]

I've even demoed this on small scale, as I only have two servers, and it was successful and massively more performant vs the cost.

And that's the rub. On a small scale many things work. I wonder what your cross region disaster recovery plan is with your home brew servers. None of the public clouds are perfect but pretending you can duplicate them yourself is delusional.

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[Murdoch5]

Not at all, I would need to stand up a some web services and DB's with simple Geo-Redundancy and Geo-Duplication , something a Jr IT staff member could do and is rather simple providing you setup the infrastructure properly, OVH supports this in there private / public clouds. Proving it works on the small scale is a completely valid test in our case, because scaling is simply a case of understanding web server / DB server administration in Linux, which again, a Jr IT staff member should be able to accompl

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[wiredog]

Because single-sourcing anything is a Really Bad Idea. AWS has just as many flaws as Azure, just different ones. Oracle and Google likewise.

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[Murdoch5]

Absolutely! Don't get me wrong, single source is HORRIBLE due the massive failure point (don't bother trying to explain this to my boss).

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[will_die]

Tech reason:
A major part of the contract is the support of hybrid clouds.
Back when the contract proposal was released and the companies wrote up their proposals AWS did not do much in the support of hybrid cloud and the tools they provided were non-existance for most part.
Azure is excellent for hybrid clouds so along with price they won.

All you secrets safe in the cloud :]

[notdecnet]

Is it wise, keeping all you secrets in “the cloud” :]

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[gtall]

"Thanks to US sanctions, in a few years, Huawei future "US-free, Google-free" devices may become the only allowed devices in some countries."

Only to countries the CCP can buffalo into banning Google. No country not thrall to the CCP trusts China as long as the CCP is in charge.

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[guruevi]

Other countries already ban US companies, most obviously the CCP where most of Google is blocked and banned and EU where they just are protectionist assholes.

Trustworthy

[akashgpt01]

This is not trustworthy instead how to earn money [thefreegyaan.com] is effective. thank you

Literally less than a penny's rounding error

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

seven-figure contract

Let's call it roughly one ten thousandth of one percent of Google's net worth.