AWS GovCloud Services – Hyperscale Hosting Tailored for Public Sector Security
AWS has established dedicated regions that adhere to stringent security and compliance requirements, such as encryption, access controls, and monitoring.
The tier one Cloud providers like AWS have tailored their services for the public sector, enabling governments to also adopt these same innovation capabilities and accelerated rates of deployment.
AWS operates dedicated Cloud regions for public sector organizations, their ‘GovCloud’ services.
In order to cater to the specific needs of government customers, AWS has established dedicated regions that adhere to stringent security and compliance requirements, such as encryption, access controls, and monitoring. These regions are designed to provide government agencies with the necessary infrastructure and services while ensuring data protection and regulatory compliance.
Over 5,000 public sector organizations use their services, and they offer a supporting guide on getting started with buying GovCloud services. AWS has engineered their platform to be compliant with the strict security requirements of Governments, such as supporting FedRAMP Moderate and High and additionally supporting the DOD SRG impact levels two, four and five.
The AWS Government Regions are purpose-built, compliance-eligible, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructures designed to address mission needs and critical workload requirements for civilian, healthcare, and financial agencies, and supporting organizations.
In this lightning talk, learn how AWS Government Regions help customers accelerate their desired outcomes and the deployment of modern applications while reducing risk compared to legacy on-premises deployments.
Digital Government Transformation
GovCloud services enable the public sector to speed their digital transformation initiatives, and AWS offers a portfolio of customer case studies that explain how.
Pioneers like Digital Iceland offer advice to other governments for leading successful digital transformation. Since becoming Digital Iceland’s CEO in 2020, Andri Kristinsson has led successful nation-scale digital transformation. He describes core components that other transformation mission leaders can use, including how to talk to users, use open source solutions, and build momentum by transforming an initial high-profile service.
The Cloud enables agencies to rapidly implement technology and policy programs required for online government services. For example Serverless for Digital Identity GOV.UK One Login lets customers sign in to a Government service with their email address, password and two-factor authentication, with deployment accelerated through Serverless computing.
This also includes making AI more accessible. In this talk Clint Crosier, AWS Director for Aerospace and Satellite explains how AWS is on a mission to democratize generative AI, making it safe, easy and cost-effective for any organization. You’ll also hear from Ross Ermel on the Department of National Defence’s digital transformation journey in the cloud.
Meet the Team(s)
AWS operates local account teams to accompany and support the local GovCloud regions and implementation services. For example meet the leader of AWS Public Sector Canada and some amazing team members who work with thousands of government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations across Canada to use AWS to drive innovation and deliver better services.
