Amazon Web Services will open a new GovCloud Region in 2018 on the U.S. East Coast, the company announced at its annual Public Sector Summit on June 13.
“The upcoming AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region will provide customers with added redundancy, data durability, and resiliency, and will also provide additional options for disaster recovery,” wrote Jeff Barr, chief evangelist at AWS, in a blog post on the announcement.
AWS launched its first GovCloud region, located on the West Coast, in 2011, which was “designed to meet the unique regulatory requirements of the United States Government.”
“Like the existing region, which we now call AWS GovCloud (US-West), the new region will be isolated and meet top U.S. government compliance requirements including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), NIST standards, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate and High, Department of Defense Impact Levels 2-4, DFARs, IRS1075, and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) requirements,” Barr wrote.
“Government agencies and the IT contractors that serve them were early adopters of AWS GovCloud (US), as were companies in regulated industries. These organizations are able to enjoy the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of public cloud while benefiting from the isolation and data protection offered by a region designed and built to meet their regulatory needs and to help them to meet their compliance requirements.”
