AWS achieves FedRAMP JAB High and Moderate Provisional Authorization across 16 services in the AWS US East/West and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS is continually expanding the scope of our compliance programs to help your organization run sensitive and regulated workloads. Today, we’re pleased to announce an additional array of AWS services that are available in the AWS US East/West and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, marking a 17.7% increase in our number of FedRAMP authorizations since the beginning of December 2019. We’ve achieved authorizations for 16 additional services, 6 of which have been authorized for both the AWS US East/West and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

We’ve achieved FedRAMP authorizations for the following 7 services in our AWS US East/West Regions:

• Amazon Comprehend
• Amazon Transcribe
• Amazon Translate
• AWS Batch
• AWS DataSync
• AWS License Manager
• AWS Trusted Advisor

We also received 15 service authorizations in our AWS GovCloud (US) Regions:

• Amazon Cloud Directory
• Amazon Comprehend
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon Transcribe
• Amazon Translate
• AWS CodeBuild
• AWS CodeCommit
• AWS DataSync
• AWS IoT Greengrass
• AWS License Manager
• AWS Organizations
• AWS Service Catalog
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS WAF

In total, we now offer 78 AWS services authorized in the AWS US East/West Regions under FedRAMP Moderate and 70 services authorized in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions under FedRamp High. You can see our full, updated list of authorizations on the FedRAMP Marketplace. We also list all of our services in scope by compliance program on our Services in Scope by Compliance Program page.

Our FedRAMP assessment was completed with an accredited third-party assessment organization (3PAO) to ensure an independent validation of our technical, management, and operational security controls against the FedRAMP NIST requirements and baselines.

We care deeply about our customers’ needs, and compliance is my team’s priority. We want to continue to onboard services into the compliance programs our customers are using, such as FedRAMP.

To learn what other public sector customers are doing on AWS, see our Government, Education, and Nonprofits Case Studies and Customer Success Stories. Stay tuned for future updates on our Services in Scope by Compliance Program page. If you have feedback about this blog post, let us know in the Comments section below.