AWS Partner Veza Helps the City of Las Vegas Secure Data in a Hybrid, Multi-cloud Environment

55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, with 68% projected to live in urban areas by 2050. As such, cities represent perhaps the most important opportunity for innovation and digital transformation. For the City of Las Vegas, keeping data secure in their hybrid, multi-cloud environment is critical to accelerate digital transformation and foster innovation. During this video, Michael Sherwood, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at the City of Las Vegas, discusses his journey to secure data and maintain least privilege in a complex, distributed environment.

ScaleCapacity, an AWS Partner, worked alongside the City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA) to move a critical document management system to an Amazon wEB Services (AWS) serverless solution using services including Amazon S3 and AWS Backup. As a result, the ITA reduced its document management costs by 80 percent, lowered data replication time from 24 hours to 15 minutes, and scales on demand to store 500,000 additional data objects each year.

RISCPoint, an AWS Partner, worked with Own Company (previously OwnBackup) to achieve a FedRAMP Moderate authorization for the Own Government Cloud, which is built on AWS GovCloud (US). Collaborating closely with the AWS Global Security & Compliance Acceleration Program partner RISCPoint, Own achieved an Authority to Operate (ATO) FedRAMP certification in under 12 months and can now offer data protection products to all U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as government contractors in specific use cases.