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AWS announces secret region for intelligence customers

Federal Times: Amazon Web Services recently unveiled their AWS Secret Region cloud, available to the U.S. intelligence community through their Commercial Cloud Services contract with AWS.

According to a blog post on the announcement, this makes AWS the only commercial cloud provider to provide for all classifications of data between unclassified and top secret.

“Today, we mark an important milestone as we launch the AWS Secret Region,” said Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector. “AWS now provides the U.S. intelligence community a commercial cloud capability across all classification levels: top secret, secret, sensitive and unclassified. The U.S. intelligence community can now execute their missions with a common set of tools, a constant flow of the latest technology and the flexibility to rapidly scale with the mission. The AWS Top Secret Region was launched three years ago as the first air-gapped commercial cloud and customers across the U.S. intelligence community have made it a resounding success. Ultimately, this capability allows more agency collaboration, helps get critical information to decision makers faster, and enables an increase in our nation’s security.”

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