US public sector and regulated commercial
customers can run mission-critical workloads with low latency and
high availability in new AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Customers and APN partners actively using AWS
GovCloud include: Adobe, Blackboard, Booz Allen Hamilton,
Drakontas, Druva, ECS, Enlighten IT, General Electric, General
Dynamics Information Technology, the Indiana State Police
Department, Infor, JHC Technology, Leidos, NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Novetta, PowerDMS, Raytheon, REAN Cloud, SAP NS2,
Smartronix, US Department of Treasury, and US Department of
Veterans Affairs, among others.
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Region, its second GovCloud infrastructure region in the United
States. With the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, AWS
now provides 57 Availability Zones across 19 geographic regions
globally with another 12 Availability Zones and four regions coming
online in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, South Africa, and Sweden between
the end of 2018 and the first half of 2020. The AWS GovCloud
Regions meet the stringent requirements of the public sector and
highly regulated industries, including being operated on US soil by
US citizens, and are accessible only to vetted US entities and root
account holders who must confirm they are US persons. For more
information, go to: https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/.
“For more than seven years, government customers and those in
highly regulated industries have been using AWS GovCloud (US-West)
to run workloads that must meet the most stringent security and
compliance requirements,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice President,
Worldwide Public Sector at AWS. “Based on the growth of GovCloud
(US-West) and high customer demand for a second region in the
eastern part of the US, we’ve opened a second GovCloud Region so
that AWS customers can support their mission-critical programs with
even lower latency to the East Coast and have the ability to
implement cross-region disaster recovery.”
AWS was the first cloud provider to launch an isolated
infrastructure region designed to meet government and other highly
regulated industry requirements when it opened the AWS GovCloud
(US-West) Region in 2011. Like AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud
(US-East) offers three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are
comprised of multiple Availability Zones, which refer to technology
infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with
enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event
impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide
low-latency for high availability applications. Each Availability
Zone has independent power, cooling, physical security, and is
connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers
focused on high availability can design their applications to run
in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault
tolerance.
AWS GovCloud helps customers address compliance at every stage
of their cloud journey, supporting more certifications,
attestations, laws, regulations, and security frameworks than any
other cloud provider, as well as offering more services covered by
those compliance regimes. Similar to AWS GovCloud (US-West), the
new AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is isolated and meets the top US
government compliance requirements, including: Federal Risk and
Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate and High
baselines, US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the
Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Low, Moderate,
and High baselines, the Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice
Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy, Department of Defense
(DoD) Impact Levels 2, 4, and 5. The AWS GovCloud Regions also
conform to commercial security and privacy standards such as
Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Privacy Standards, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security, System and
Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3, as well as ISO/IEC 9001
compliance which is primarily for healthcare, life sciences,
medical devices, automotive, and aerospace customers.
Customers and APN Partners welcome new AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Region
AWS customers can now enjoy the second AWS GovCloud Region in
the eastern part of the United States for reduced latency, added
redundancy, data durability, resiliency, greater disaster recovery
capability, and the ability to scale across multiple regions.
United States government agencies, and the IT contractors that
serve them, were early adopters of AWS GovCloud (US-West) while US
public sector and commercial customers in highly regulated
industries such as education, financial services, and healthcare
also use AWS GovCloud. Government agencies like the US Department
of Treasury, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and many others
use AWS GovCloud for their applications and workloads. Companies
like Adobe, Blackboard, Booz Allen Hamilton, Drakontas, Druva, ECS,
Enlighten IT, General Dynamics Information Technology, GE, Infor,
JHC Technology, Leidos, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Novetta,
PowerDMS, Raytheon, REAN Cloud, a Hitachi Vantara company, SAP NS2,
and Smartronix are among AWS GovCloud customers that rely on the
compliance standards and security that only AWS GovCloud can
provide.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for
providing vital services like healthcare to America’s veterans and
enjoys the flexibility and cost savings of AWS in efficiently
innovating to better serve US military Veterans. “At the US
Department of Veterans Affairs, we’ve seen firsthand the cost
savings, flexibility, and ‘doorway to innovation’ that the cloud
provides,” said Dave Cantanoso, Director of Enterprise Cloud
Solutions at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. “Through the
agency’s use of commercial cloud, we’ve been able to provide a more
streamlined experience for our nation’s Veterans, giving them
faster, easier access to benefits, healthcare, and other essential
services through Vets.gov. We’re excited to take advantage of the
new AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region to continue optimizing that
online experience.”
Raytheon, one of the world’s leading providers of technology for
mission-critical defense systems, is using AWS GovCloud to comply
with a wide range of government regulations, and by using AWS they
have been able to reduce the time to build, test, and scale
software from weeks to hours. “Working with AWS has allowed us to
unlock new opportunities and deliver more capability, services, and
innovation to our global customers,” said John DeSimone, Vice
President of Cybersecurity at Raytheon IIS. “With a new AWS
GovCloud Region in the eastern part of the United States, we are
able to leverage the security and flexibility that only AWS
GovCloud provides to bring operational value for our mission
partners with even lower latency.”
Across the United States, state and local governments, including
law enforcement, have been using AWS GovCloud to store their data
in a cost effective way. In Indiana, the State Police Department
relies on AWS GovCloud to innovate and advance law enforcement
through technology, while securely storing data that is CJIS
compliant. “The use of technology and data is becoming increasingly
important to law enforcement,” said Major Mike White, Assistant
Chief of Staff with the Indiana State Police Department. “With
advancements, come the need for secure connectivity and storage
without draining the budget. Storage for databases, reports, and
video are part of today’s challenges for law enforcement
technology managers. AWS is quickly becoming a go-to solution for
technology needs that won’t break the bank.”
Drakontas provides products for law enforcement, criminal
justice, infrastructure protection, transportation, and military
communities. Its DragonForce software, which combines multiple
planning tools to deliver real-time information to commanders and
field members, is built entirely on AWS. “The new AWS GovCloud
bolsters the geo-redundant offering of DragonForce for our
customers who have the most demanding mission critical
requirements,” said James Sim, President and Chief Operating
Officer at Drakontas. “DragonForce users including York County,
Pennsylvania’s Quick Response Team, the Monmouth County, New Jersey
Emergency Response Team, and the Gwinnett County, Georgia SWAT will
all benefit from the reduced latency and increased reliability that
we’ll be able to provide by leveraging this new AWS GovCloud
Region.”
PowerDMS allows organizations in public safety, law enforcement,
government, healthcare, and other industries to share crucial
content, and recently migrated its production network and system
components to AWS GovCloud. “As a technology service provider for
the public safety market, we know that when our customers are
responding to life-saving situations every second counts,” said
Heath Hensley, Chief Technology Officer, PowerDMS. “Our customers
are located throughout the US and it’s important that our data
centers are strategically placed to ensure the lowest latency
possible. The addition of AWS GovCloud (US-East) not only allows us
to reduce latency for our East Coast customers but also increase
redundancy so that all customers can access crucial content the
second they need it.”
Customers can access the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region beginning
today. A full list of services is available at
https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/
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