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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

it's not airgapped, it's still cloud, it can't be. it's some kind of "secure" cloud that passed some kind of audit. openai already had a breach or a few, so i'm not entirely sure it will pan out

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Iirc OpenAI uses Microsoft's cloud?

    If so, MSFT has a special airgapped cloud specifically for USGov.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    they probably do. I worked for a content-as-a-service company that had a contract to deliver our product, airgapped, to a three-letter agency on a regular schedule, and we were a tiny company. Microsoft's biggest customer is probably the U.S. government; I'd be shocked if they don't provide an in-house airgapped set of full Azure services for the entire intelligence agency system.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    They do. Source: I worked in at MSFT in Azure Identity. It's completely separate, has its own rollout schedule for all products, etc.

    There's also a physically separate cloud for China 🙃

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    tbh I personally wouldn’t expect/suspect this to be using any of the flavours of govcloud for mass-market flavours (because that has implications on staff hiring etc)

    the easy way to handle this is to have a backend/frontend separation with baseline access controlled simply by construction of routing and zone primitives. it’s relatively simple (albeit moderately involved) to do this on most cloud providers

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