We got FedRAMP certified at a previous job. At first I balked at you saying it cost $1M but, doing some back-of-the-napkin math, that's probably pretty accurate

We got FedRAMP certified at a previous job. At first I balked at you saying it cost $1M but, doing some back-of-the-napkin math, that's probably pretty accurate once you take into account the salaries of everybody involved, time that we had to spend figuring out all the auditing, outside companies we had to hire and involve, and extra cloud costs and setup. Not to mention the ongoing cost of maintaining all of that and ongoing audits. We were also a pretty small startup (~50 people?) but were focused solely on government data storage and management, so it made a lot of sense for us to get the certification. It definitely paid for itself in the number of contracts it unlocked.