Because there are federal agents with rifles guarding the data center, and they're allowed to use deadly force if the local FD ignores their instructions.
Because there are federal agents with rifles guarding the data center, and they're allowed to use deadly force if the local FD ignores their instructions.
What AWS datacenters are guarded by federal agents?
The ones hosting classified data used by federal agencies. https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/
Is that this one in particular?
Reading between the lines: yes, certainly. Amazon wouldn't stop firefighters from getting into a normal datacenter, nor would they have the authority to stop them if they wanted to. A private corporation can't demand background checks from emergency responders; a letter agency can.
One would think they would cite that as a reason