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Staying a Step Ahead in a Changing World: The AFSOC Story
The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), headquartered at Hurlburt Field, Florida, is the special operations component of the United States Air Force. Their mission is to provide the Nation’s specialized airpower, capable across the spectrum of conflict – any place, any time. AFSOC strives to stay a step ahead in a changing world, delivering […]
Five ways defense agencies and warfighters can benefit from cloud technology
In the March issue of National Defense, Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Defense Department (DoD) at Amazon Web Services, shared how defense and intelligence agencies can deploy cloud services to reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and successfully achieve their missions. Within the article, Jennifer addresses security concerns, the benefits of the cloud, and the contract […]
Congratulations to the Fed100 Winners!
The Federal 100 Awards recognized 100 federal government and industry leaders who have made pivotal progress in the government IT community and showed what’s possible with technology in 2016 and laid the groundwork for results in 2017. At AWS, we have the opportunity to work with more than 2,300 government organizations to serve citizens more […]
The DARPA HIVE Program: Understanding Relationships with Data
Social media, sensor feeds, and scientific data generate large amounts of data and understanding the relationships between this data can be challenging. Graph analytics has emerged as a way to make sense of this allowing analysts to draw conclusions from the patterns in the data and to ask and answer questions, that they previously had […]
Cloud.gov on AWS GovCloud (US) Now FedRAMP Authorized
Cloud.gov, which runs on AWS GovCloud (US) and is built and maintained by GSA’s 18F, an office that helps other government agencies build, buy, and share technology products, recently received a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) at the moderate impact level from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB). It is now the first fully open […]
Improving Security with Cloud Computing: Six Advantages of Cloud Security
Security is our number one priority, and at AWS, we have comprehensive security capabilities to protect virtually any workload. Through AWS Security services, we provide the opportunities to protect your data, monitor security-related activity, and receive automated responses. This gives our customers the ability to increase their security posture in the cloud, deliver more agile […]
Automate NIST Compliance in AWS GovCloud (US) with AWS Quick Start Tools
Take the steps to deploy security-focused baseline environments on the AWS Cloud in this Quick Start demo. This Quick Start deploys a standardized environment that helps organizations with workloads that fall in scope for any of the following: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-53 (Revision 4) NIST SP 800-171 The OMB Trusted […]
Department of Veterans Affairs Issues AWS a FISMA High General Support System ATO
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has issued Amazon Web Services (AWS) a Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) High General Support System Authority to Operate (ATO) for AWS GovCloud (US), as well as a FISMA Moderate GSS ATO for the US East and West Regions. This validation of a secure environment to run highly […]
MD5 Hackathon: Using Technology & Data to Help Save Lives
Prepare for everything. That is the guidance that MD5, a public-private partnership between the National Defense University, New York University, and a network of national research universities, is giving its participants for the MD5 Hackathon on February 24 – 26 in Austin, Texas. The three day hackathon brings together over 100 innovators from the Department […]
AWS Snowball Edge for the DoD: Bringing storage and compute to tactical situations
A growing number of military customers are adopting AWS’s cloud services to process, store, and transmit Department of Defense (DoD) data. Within the DoD, storage offers an opportunity to reduce costs and drive efficiencies, wherever the mission may take you. From the battlefield to a military installation to a remote airfield, AWS Snowball Edge can […]