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Fed Tech Roundup August 27

CTOvision

USPS Official: First Priority with Internet of Things is Cost Cutting - Nextgov. ATF CIO Rick Holgate to Step Down - Wall Street Journal (blog). Symantec takes on the Internet of unsecured things - GCN.com. DARPA wants to take the sting out of DDoS attacks - GCN.com. Soyuz Move Sets Stage for Arrival of New Space Station Crew.

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Amazon’s Blockchain Venture: Understanding the Bigger Picture

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In this article, I will shed a light on the intricacies of these Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings along with their USPs. Uses an append-only journal that stores every transaction into a block. Briefly speaking, it acts as an immutable journal that records every transaction with pinpoint accuracy.