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.
In this lightning talk, learn how AWS Government Regions—AWS GovCloud (US), AWS Secret Region, and AWS Top Secret Regions—help customers accelerate their desired outcomes and the deployment of modern applications while reducing risk compared to legacy on-premises deployments.
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, the US Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, the defense industrial base, and technology partners and supporting organizations.