Tag: AWS Public Sector Partners

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.

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.

Between rising operational costs and a population surge, Collier County, Florida, found itself facing serious budgetary pressures. For 13 consecutive years, the county had raised property taxes to keep up. But by 2023, residents were growing fatigued, and county leaders knew they needed a different solution.

AWS is expanding its Global Security and Compliance Acceleration (GSCA) partner program to AWS Secret Cloud and AWS Top Secret Cloud, creating a streamlined pathway for bringing cutting-edge capabilities to national security missions. Read this post to learn more.

In a groundbreaking demonstration, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-Intelligence) showcased the power of cloud computing in advancing autonomous air capabilities. By leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS), General Atomics (GA) successfully integrated cutting-edge technologies to demonstrate unmanned air-to-air engagement. The demonstration—which took place on July 8, 2025—marks a significant milestone in the evolution of autonomous military systems and highlights the critical role of cloud computing in modern defense operations.

Trusted Research Environments (TREs) provide secure access to sensitive data, enabling research while controlling data movement to meet governance requirements. In this post, we review core TRE concepts, examine TRE history and related initiatives, and explore key considerations for successfully deploying a TRE on AWS.

This post shares lessons learned by Pariveda, a strategy and technology services firm, during the implementation of a scalable and flexible data integration pipeline for a customer. We review three approaches, all leveraging AWS Glue and Salesforce capabilities, to securely publish data to polymorphic objects and compounded fields.

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on AWS. AWS works with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-based techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets. Through the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program, customers are making over 300 PB of high-value, cloud-optimized data available for public use.

The University of Maryland Libraries serves 41,000 students across six physical libraries on its College Park campus. Like many academic institutions, the libraries relied on aging on-premises infrastructure to support their digital services and operations. When the libraries’ IT team faced deteriorating hardware, rising licensing costs, and personnel constraints that threatened operations, they made a strategic decision: retire their data center entirely and transform their infrastructure with AWS.