Category: AWS GovCloud (US)

Today, AWS GovCloud (US) is the operational backbone of some of the nation’s most critical applications spanning security and defense, energy, public health and financial services. Fifteen years in, and that mission focus still defines everything AWS GovCloud (US) delivers.

In this post, you’ll learn how to build an identity incident review workflow that analyzes an event timeline, converts the findings into a strict incident record, and connects the review to a local account-control lookup. The examples separate observed facts from inferences and keep final incident and remediation decisions with a human reviewer.

In this post, we explain what IL5 requires, how AWS GovCloud (US) and SAP NS2 meet those requirements together, and how defense organizations can get started.

Learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a fundamentally different approach. By deploying agentic AI—specialized AI agents that work collaboratively to analyze, validate, and route documentation—federal agencies can dramatically accelerate conformity processing while maintaining or improving quality and compliance standards.

Why preventive controls matter for FedRAMP 20x Organizations strengthen their security posture when Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud resources consistently align with security and regulatory requirements. Preventive security controls, which are designed to minimize or avoid threat events, help enforce these requirements before misconfigurations are deployed. In this post, we show how service control policies […]

In this post, we explore the essential best practices for AWS GovCloud (US) account management and avoid common pitfalls. By following these practices, you can reduce compliance risk and streamline operations across your AWS GovCloud (US) environments.

In this post, we cover the use cases for AWS Cloud WAN in AWS GovCloud (US), walk through the key capabilities now available to government organizations and regulated industries, provide guidance on getting started, and discuss important considerations for deployment.

Learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) operates inside a scoped compute environment with an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) execution role, network segmentation, and defense-in-depth security meeting FISMA, FedRAMP, and DoD CCSRG standards.

Learn how AWS GovCloud (US) customer technical support cases are routed to US-based, US citizens. This means that 24/7, AWS Support will make every effort to ensure your cases are handled exclusively by US-based, US citizens throughout the entire case lifecycle – no opt-in or special request required.

This post brings guidance on Customer Responsibility Matrices (CRMs), authorization boundary definitions, and multi-provider control ownership into a single actionable framework for defense contractors preparing for third-party assessment.