AWS Public Sector Blog

Christopher Smith

Author: Christopher Smith

Christopher Smith is a senior solutions architect on the U.S. Federal Partners team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He’s supported the U.S. Federal Government since entering the commercial workforce in 2003. He manages his work-life balance by focusing his free time on his family and also enjoys trivia and being outdoors whenever possible.

AWS GovCloud (US) or standard? Selecting the right AWS partition

This blog post explores the options US public sector customers and their business partners should evaluate when selecting an AWS partition. We discuss the differences between AWS GovCloud (US) and the AWS standard partition and how to decide which partition may be the best match for your organization’s security, compliance, and availability needs.