AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS and Telos are pleased to announce that Xacta, a leading cyber governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform, has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization—the program’s highest security level. This achievement validates Telos’s partnership with AWS in delivering enterprise-grade security solutions for US public sector organizations and regulated industries, providing the tools needed to efficiently manage security compliance—from initial assessment through continuous monitoring.

Today, AWS announced the launch of its new Digital Sovereignty Module as part of the AWS Partner Transformation Program (PTP). The module is designed for AWS Partners looking to build digital sovereignty offerings, helping them support public sector and regulated industries customers address their data residency and compliance requirements on AWS. Read this post to learn more.

If your public sector organization has been weighing the benefits of cloud migration against concerns about security, costs, skill gaps, or the effort required, a recent BrightTALK webinar offers a roadmap forward. In “Best Practices: Accelerating Your Cloud Modernization Journey,” Amy Wilson, migration and modernization specialist leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS), joined Scott Sinclair, practice director at Enterprise Strategy Group, to share practical strategies for migrating and modernizing on the AWS Cloud. Read this post to learn more.

The University of Notre Dame embarked on a journey to become the first US higher education institution to take a comprehensive, enterprise-wide approach to deploying AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), AWS Shield Advanced, and AWS Firewall Manager across the entirety of their AWS infrastructure. This meticulous implementation also established a blueprint for other institutions to follow.

Public sector agencies need to modernize document management addressing risks and costs while complying with government security frameworks. An enterprise object storage (EOS) solution, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), aims to deliver secure, cost-effective, and compliant storage with antivirus scanning, per-tenant encryption, and add-on features such as Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 digital signing, full text search, and optical character recognition (OCR).

In this post, we introduce AWS observability services, explore best practices for observability, and explain how to achieve them.

Modern warfare has evolved into a data-driven domain where success often depends on the ability to collect, process, and act on information faster than adversaries. Whether it’s processing sensor data, coordinating autonomous systems, or enabling tactical communications, the edge has become a critical battlefield where decisions are made in real time.

AWS is excited to share a custom Mission Resilience Lens (MRL) for the AWS Well-Architected Tool, which provides specialized guidance for architecting resilient mission systems.

In this post, we explore an architecture to facilitate data transfer, and we will demonstrate how to implement the Prometheus-X Data Space Connector (PDC) on AWS. This solution enables organizations to participate in the education and skills data ecosystem securely and efficiently.

For US government contractors and subcontractors, navigating the path to Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is no small task. The stakes are high, and the requirements are complex. With the Department of Defense (DoD)—also known as the Department of War—phasing CMMC into new and existing contracts, the pressure to get it right keeps growing. That’s why organizations are increasingly looking for efficient, scalable ways to examine their environments to prepare for CMMC assessments without overburdening teams or budgets.