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Article says that this is the first cloud provider certified for these workloads, but I believe both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS began negotiating these cont

Article says that this is the first cloud provider certified for these workloads, but I believe both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS began negotiating these contracts around the same time. Microsoft announced their version a few weeks ago[1]. I wonder if Google will follow shortly? [1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-government-capabilities-for-classified-mission-critical-workloads/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-...

killjoywashere 9y ago
Microsoft's announcement has a lot "will". Amazon's has a lot of "is".
- jknoepfler 9y ago
  Where the "is" should be generally understood as "is[1]" [1] but in such a poorly tested, underbaked fashion you probably shouldn't bother for a few years
  - pnathan 9y ago
    I see someone's experienced in AWS product rollout.
    - jknoepfler 9y ago
      Yeah, I worked on an AWS product launch for a product that was not ready to go live, and we ended up trying to dog-food a bunch of other AWS services that were also not ready to be live. It was honestly pretty shocking.
      - killjoywashere 9y ago
        Thanks. This is the sort of experience-based comment that I read Hacker News for.
- IncRnd 9y ago
  https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-government-extends-lead-in-the-cloud-another-leap-in-fedramp-coverage/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-government-exte...
  - TheDong 9y ago
    From the azure post you link: > authorized for use with up to High Impact level data That's not "Secret" or "Top secret" AWS govcloud has existed for HI for ages; this announcement is specifically for "Secret" classified data.
    - IncRnd 9y ago
      You misunderstand. The reasons you mention were the reasons I posted those links. FedRAMP has multiple levels. Don't conflate the FedRAMP authorizations solely with marketing terms.

killjoywashere 9y ago

Microsoft's announcement has a lot "will". Amazon's has a lot of "is".

jknoepfler 9y ago
Where the "is" should be generally understood as "is[1]" [1] but in such a poorly tested, underbaked fashion you probably shouldn't bother for a few years
- pnathan 9y ago
  I see someone's experienced in AWS product rollout.
  - jknoepfler 9y ago
    Yeah, I worked on an AWS product launch for a product that was not ready to go live, and we ended up trying to dog-food a bunch of other AWS services that were also not ready to be live. It was honestly pretty shocking.
    - killjoywashere 9y ago
      Thanks. This is the sort of experience-based comment that I read Hacker News for.
IncRnd 9y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-government-extends-lead-in-the-cloud-another-leap-in-fedramp-coverage/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-government-exte...
- TheDong 9y ago
  From the azure post you link: > authorized for use with up to High Impact level data That's not "Secret" or "Top secret" AWS govcloud has existed for HI for ages; this announcement is specifically for "Secret" classified data.
  - IncRnd 9y ago
    You misunderstand. The reasons you mention were the reasons I posted those links. FedRAMP has multiple levels. Don't conflate the FedRAMP authorizations solely with marketing terms.