More Than One Dozen AWS Cloud Services Receive Department of Defense Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorizations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region

Today, I am pleased to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US) Region has received Defense Information Systems Agency Impact Level 4 (IL4) Provisional Authorization (PA) for more than one dozen new services. The IL4 PA enables Department of Defense (DoD) customers to operate their mission-critical and regulated workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, with data up to the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide IL4.

The new AWS services added to the authorization include advanced database, low-cost storage, data warehouse, security, and configuration automation solutions that will help organizations with IL4 workloads increase the productivity and security of their data in the AWS Cloud. For example, with AWS CloudFormation you can deploy AWS resources by automating configuration processes. AWS Key Management Service enables you to create and control the encryption keys that you use to encrypt your data. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze all your data by using your existing business intelligence tools and automate common administrative tasks to manage, monitor, and scale your data warehouse.

For a list of frequently asked questions, see AWS DoD Compliance page. For more information about AWS security and compliance, see the AWS Security Center and the AWS Compliance Center.