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AWS achieves FedRAMP JAB High and Moderate Provisional Authorization across 18 services in the AWS US East/West and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. It’s my pleasure to announce that we’ve expanded the number of AWS services that customers can use to run sensitive and highly regulated workloads in the federal government space. This expansion of our FedRAMP program marks a 28.6% increase in […]

AWS achieves FedRAMP JAB High and Moderate Provisional Authorization across 14 Services in the AWS US East/West and GovCloud Regions

Since I launched our FedRAMP program way back in 2013, it has always excited me to talk about how we’re continually expanding the scope of our compliance programs because that means you’re able to use more of our services for sensitive and regulated workloads. Up to this point, we’ve had 22 services in our US […]

AWS Achieves FedRAMP JAB Moderate Provisional Authorization for 20 Services in the AWS US East/West Region

The AWS US East/West Region has received a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the Joint Authorization Board (JAB) at the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate baseline. Though AWS has maintained an AWS US East/West Region Agency-ATO since early 2013, this announcement represents AWS’s carefully deliberated move to the JAB for the centralized maintenance […]