The AWS Cloud is uniquely positioned to provide scalable and cost-efficient solutions for the US Department of Defense - cloud services can be leveraged to meet mandates, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation. AWS provides cloud services a pay-as-you-go model, delivering access to technology resources that are managed by experts. Simply access AWS services over the Internet, with no upfront costs (no capital investment), and pay only for the computing resources that you use, as your needs scale.
In the 2014 Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant, Gartner placed Amazon Web Services in the “Leaders” quadrant and rated AWS as having the furthest completeness of vision and highest ability to execute.
Through its data center consolidation/closure efforts, the Department of the Navy is expected to save $1.3 billion of their IT budget. In this webisode, Terry Halvorsen, former Department of the Navy CIO and now Acting CIO for the U.S. Department of Defense, addresses the future of data centers during the most recent Data Center Exchange Brainstorm, providing helpful tips and personal insight on what is needed for effective consolidation.
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In order to provide end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy, AWS builds services in accordance with customer mandates, security best practices, provides appropriate security features in those services, and documents how to use those features.
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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. AWS has two separate FedRAMP Agency ATOs in the FedRAMP Repository; one ATO applicable to the AWS US East/West regions, and the other applicable to the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. AWS US East/West is a multi-tenant public cloud for federal, state, and local government customers, as well as enterprise customers, and is designed to meet a wide range of regulatory requirements, including government compliance and security requirements. AWS GovCloud (US) is an AWS Region designed to allow US government agencies, contractors and customers to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements, such as ITAR, which governs how organizations manage and store defense-related data. Additional information is available at AWS GovCloud (US) Region.
Agencies and federal contractors can immediately request access to the AWS HHS ATO packages by submitting a FedRAMP Package Access Request Form for the "Amazon Web Services - AWS GovCloud (US) Region" with package ID "AGENCYAMAZONGC" and the "Amazon Web Services - US East/West Region" with package ID "AGENCYAMAZONEW". Additional information on FedRAMP, including the FedRAMP Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and Guide to Understanding FedRAMP, can be found at http://www.fedramp.gov.
The AWS GovCloud (US) Region is an AWS Region designed to address the specific regulatory needs of United States government agencies, education entities, and other customers and partners.
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