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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

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

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

Iirc OpenAI uses Microsoft's cloud?

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

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 5 months 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 🙃

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 5 months 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

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

My interpretation of what they're saying is that it's on their own servers in their own location that can only be accessed from specific access points.

Talking about networks as airgapped isn't abnormal.

I see you've never taken part in a FedRAMP audit. They're brutal.

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