Healthcare.gov’s success on AWS inspires federal cloud use
June 26, 2015
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.
The United States federal government is moving beyond high-level cultural concerns as it looks to catch up to the private sector in cloud computing. Instead of conversations about culture, this week’s Amazon Web Services Public Sector Symposium here featured discussions about legislation and regulatory initiatives that are in the works to connect the federal government to public cloud.
Federal government poster children were paraded before the crowd at a keynote presentation with tales of success in the trenches with cloud computing — including Healthcare.gov. The site famously experienced freezes, crashes and other glitches when it first opened to the public in October 2013…
Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees the site, moved large portions of the site’s consumer-facing application for coverage and health plan comparison tool to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an effort to improve performance…
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