India, Aug. 11 -- Can bureaucracy be strengthened or diluted with IT? Can classified areas, document filtering and secret departments find new allies in AI and Cloud? At the 15th annual AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC, AWS shared its support for national security and defence, as well as updates on AWS's custom chips and other announcements.

There are pigeons. And there are owls and hawks. The information can be sent both ways. But the routes, grip, wings and flight-time vary so much between a soft-staple bird and a sharp-eyed aviator. Handling documents in classified areas and rigid bureaucracies is no different. It would be fascinating to see what kind of wings AWS is choosing here, and where they are parking themselves.

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