US Federal Government

Mission workloads for scientific, security and citizen services agencies across the federal government are running on AWS

Defense and Intelligence

The world's most demanding customers choose AWS for a complete platform that meets strict security and compliance standards

State and Local Governments

Flexible and economical cloud infrastructure for citizen services, justice and public safety, transportation, health and more

With over 2,000 government agencies using AWS, we understand the requirements US government agencies have to balance economy and agility with security, compliance and reliability. In every instance, we have been among the first to solve government compliance challenges facing cloud computing and have consistently helped our customers navigate procurement and policy issues related to adoption of cloud computing.

Secure

Comprehensive security capabilities to satisfy the most demanding information security requirements.

Private, Isolated Resources

Choose the right level of isolation for your apps, and integrate with existing resources.

Compliant

Rich controls, auditing and broad security accreditations to enable compliance with FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, FERPA and more.

Hybrid

Build hybrid IT architectures that extend your on-premises infrastructure to the Cloud.

Buying Cloud Computing for Government

Finding the right partner and contract vehicle can be half the battle when you want to shift to cloud computing within a government agency. AWS and its partners offer agencies many flexible options for procuring the flexible, low cost technology they need through direct purchase or a range of contract vehicles.

AWS GovCloud (US)

A region designed to address the needs of US government and its partners

AWS GovCloud (US) is an AWS Region designed to address the specific regulatory needs of United States government agencies, education entities, and other customers and partners. The AWS GovCloud (US) Region has been issued a FedRAMP Agency ATO and agencies can immediately request access to the Amazon Web Services - AWS GovCloud (US) Region FedRAMP package by submitting a FedRAMP Package Access Request Form using package ID "AGENCYAMAZONGC".

Smart Cities Serve Citizens in the Cloud

Cities are quickly embracing innovation and developing new ways for engaging and serving citizens. From transportation to planning and from criminal justice to utilities, cities are using cloud computing to transform the way they interact with citizens and think about their future.

Criminal Justice and Public Safety

When law enforcement places data in the cloud, they need timely access to that data - wherever and whenever necessary. To help cities meet these needs, AWS complies with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Security (CJIS) standard. We sign CJIS security agreements with our customers, including allowing or performing any required employee background checks.

“We’re a small team, working with clients that have tight budgets, so we need to be able to leverage scalable resources without investing lots on infrastructure. It just makes sense to build our data repositories and many other websites on the cloud.” -Chris Webber, senior cloud engineer, NREL