Government agencies and organizations can now leverage a U.S.-only
AWS Region to comply with the unique regulatory requirements of the
federal government such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
(ITAR)
SEATTLE, Aug 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN),
today announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to allow U.S.
government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads
into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance
requirements. Previously, government agencies with data subject to
compliance regulations such as the International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (ITAR), which governs how organizations manage and store
defense-related data, were unable to process and store data in the cloud
that the federal government mandated be accessible only by U.S. persons.
Because AWS GovCloud is physically and logically accessible by U.S.
persons only, government agencies can now manage more heavily regulated
data in AWS while remaining compliant with strict federal requirements.
The new Region offers the same high level of security as other AWS
Regions and supports existing AWS security controls and certifications
such as FISMA, FIPS 140-2 compliant end points, SAS-70, ISO 27001, and
PCI DSS Level 1. AWS also provides an environment that enables agencies
to comply with HIPAA regulations. AWS resources deployed from AWS
GovCloud such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC) are available on-demand and agencies pay only for what they
use, allowing the U.S. government to benefit from the flexibility,
scalability and low pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS. To get started using
AWS GovCloud, visit http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us.
"Just as we are early explorers of outer space, JPL have been early
explorers of the cloud computing space. We've leveraged AWS in our
missions for a few years now and were the first to use cloud computing
for daily operations," said Tomas Soderstrom, Chief Technology Officer,
in the Office of the CIO at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "By
working with cloud computing providers such as AWS, we gain the
flexibility to move quickly, acquire IT resources on-demand and save
money by paying only for the resources we use. This implements the JPL
CIO, Jim Rinaldi's, vision of provisioning instead of procuring
hardware. As we move more workloads into the cloud, we look forward to
leveraging ITAR compliant clouds, such as the new AWS GovCloud for our
compliance-dependent projects so we can continue to look to the cloud
first for even more missions."
"In March of 2010, the U.S. Recovery and Accountability Transparency
Board became the first government-wide agency to migrate to a
cloud-based technology infrastructure when it moved Recovery.gov to AWS.
In one budget cycle alone, the Recovery and Accountability board was
able to save $750,000 by leveraging AWS," said Teresa Carlson, Vice
President of Global Public Sector, Amazon Web Services. "Today, over 100
government agencies are taking advantage of AWS and we're excited to
continue working with agencies as they implement the Federal Cloud First
policy to become more efficient, agile, and innovative through more
effective use of technology infrastructure. AWS GovCloud is the next
step in that evolution."
To learn more about how U.S. government agencies are leveraging Amazon
Web Services, visit http://aws.amazon.com/federal/.
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