Tag: GovCloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released Customer Compliance Guides (CCGs) to support customers, partners, and auditors in their understanding of how compliance requirements from leading frameworks map to AWS service security recommendations. CCGs cover 100+ services and features offering security guidance mapped to 10 different compliance frameworks. Customers can select any of the available frameworks and services […]

October 2, 2024: This post was republished to update the terminology for management accounts. AWS Organizations is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to centrally govern and manage your AWS GovCloud (US) accounts. AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your […]

We are pleased to announce that AWS has received a FedRAMP High JAB Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Joint Authorization Board (JAB) for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The new Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High JAB Provisional Authorization is mapped to more than 400 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security controls. This […]

Today, Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB released support for encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Using keys under your control, you can now encrypt RDS instances, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB instance types, and Amazon Redshift clusters in AWS GovCloud […]

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. You can now encrypt data in your own applications and within the following AWS services in GovCloud by using keys under your control: Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes Amazon S3 objects using Server Side Encryption (SSE-KMS) and client-side encryption using the […]

I’m very excited to share that AWS has received the first ever U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) level 3-5 Provisional Authorization for the AWS GovCloud (US) region under the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Cloud Security Model (CSM). AWS has been authorized for CSM levels 1-2 workloads for all US regions since March of this […]