Amazon claims 300 US government customers for AWS
October 13, 2012
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com’s cloud services division, has claimed that more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions in the US are now using AWS for a wide variety of uses including "big data" analytics, high-performance computing applications, web and collaboration applications, archiving and storage, and disaster relief.
Teresa Carlson, vice-president of worldwide public sector, AWS, attributed the rate of adoption to such federal government initiatives as the US Federal Cloud First mandate. "With the new services and features added today in AWS GovCloud, public-sector customers now have greater capabilities to rapidly design, build and deploy high-performance applications with AWS’s scalable, secure, low-cost platform," she said…
AWS GovCloud is a US-specific iteration of AWS designed to be compliant with US data processing regulations, including the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. It addresses a common complaint of cloud computing that subscribers typically do not know where their data is being processed and stored, which could contravene certain regulations in certain countries.
US government users of AWS include the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US Recovery and Accountability Board, the US Department of the Treasury, the US Department of State, the US Department of Agriculture, the space agency NASA, the State of Washington, Douglas County in Nebraska and Multnomah County in Oregon…
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