HealthCare.gov Floats to Amazon’s Cloud in Revamp

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): The Obama administration has turned to Amazon.com Inc.AMZN -0.66% to host certain HealthCare.gov components in the latest sign that cloud is gaining traction in the government sector. The move will give the government more flexibility in the amount of computing power it uses to run its health exchange, experts say, allowing it lower costs outside of peak usage periods.

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