Amazon Web Services Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization
June 23 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Most stringent FedRAMP authorization recognizes
AWS GovCloud (US) as a secure environment to run highly sensitive
government workloads
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), today announced that the AWS GovCloud (US) Region has
received a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the Joint
Authorization Board (JAB) under the Federal Risk and Authorization
Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline, a standardized set of
security requirements for cloud services. AWS’s FedRAMP High
authorization, which includes over 400 security controls, gives
U.S. government agencies the ability to leverage the AWS Cloud for
highly sensitive workloads, including Personal Identifiable
Information (PII), sensitive patient records, financial data, law
enforcement data, and other Controlled Unclassified Information
(CUI).
"We are pleased to have achieved the FedRAMP High baseline,
giving agencies a simplified path to moving their highly sensitive
workloads to AWS so they can immediately begin taking advantage of
the cloud’s agility and cost savings,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice
President Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “Over 2,300 government
customers across the world are using the AWS Cloud to innovate in
amazing ways – from analyzing data on social media to collect
information on adverse drug effects, to making genomic data
publicly accessible, to collecting images from Mars. By
demonstrating the security of the AWS Cloud with the FedRAMP High
baseline, agencies can confidently use our services for an even
broader set of critical mission applications and innovations.”
FedRAMP is a U.S. government-wide program that provides a
standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and
continuous monitoring for cloud products and services, in an effort
to save federal agencies time, costs, and resources. The new
FedRAMP High baseline is mapped to National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) security controls, which classify data as
“High” if a compromise would severely impact an organization’s
operations, assets, or individuals.
“We’re excited to launch the FedRAMP High baseline, and to
recognize AWS as having achieved the most rigorous FedRAMP level to
date. The High baseline applies the same, ‘do once, use many times’
approach as the rest of the FedRAMP program in an effort to
standardize cloud security controls, and reduce the burden of
assessing cloud security for agencies. The FedRAMP High baseline
will be important for civilian agencies, the Department of Defense
(DoD), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and other agencies
to use the cloud for highly sensitive data,” said Matthew Goodrich,
FedRAMP Director, GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative
Technologies (OCSIT).
This authorization continues AWS’s leadership in attaining
security and compliance certifications, and applies to the AWS
GovCloud (US) Region, including Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2),
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service
(S3), Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon
Elastic Block Store (EBS). Launched in 2011, the AWS GovCloud (US)
is an isolated region designed to host sensitive workloads in the
cloud. In addition to FedRAMP, AWS GovCloud (US) adheres to U.S.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Criminal Justice
Information Services (CJIS) requirements, as well as Levels 2 and 4
for DoD systems. To learn more about AWS and FedRAMP compliance,
please visit http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/.
To learn more about how you can architect solutions in
compliance with the FedRAMP High baseline, register for our
webinar, “FedRAMP High & AWS GovCloud (US): Meet FISMA High
Requirements in the Cloud” here:
https://connect.awswebcasts.com/fedramp_high_compliance_awsgovcloud/event/event_info.html
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Japan, Korea, and Singapore. AWS services are trusted by more than
a million active customers around the world -- including the
fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies -- to power their infrastructure, make them
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com.
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