Amazon Web Services Receives Department of Defense-Wide Provisional Auorization for All U.S. Regions

Amazon Web Services Receives Department of Defense-Wide Provisional Authorization for All U.S. Regions

Achievement recognizes AWS Cloud as secure, compliant environment to run DoD workloads

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 26, 2014-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that all four of AWS's infrastructure Regions in the U.S., including AWS GovCloud (U.S.), have received a Department of Defense (DoD) Provisional Authorization under the DoD Cloud Security Model (CSM) for Impact Levels 1-2. With this distinction, AWS has shown it can meet the DoD's stringent security and compliance requirements; and as a result, even more DoD agencies can now use AWS's secure, compliant infrastructure. To learn more about the AWS DoD Provisional Authorization, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/dod-csm-faqs.

After receiving an overwhelming response from defense agencies interested in leveraging our FedRAMP Authority to Operate (ATO), we're very excited to further extend our services to the government community by meeting the additional requirements of the DoD, said Teresa Carlson, Vice President Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. Today, more than 600 government agencies use AWS services, and we look forward to continuing to demonstrate the security and reliability of the AWS Cloud so that an even broader set of DoD customers can use our services to reduce costs and innovate for their missions.

Built on the foundation of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services across the federal government, the DoD CSM includes additional security controls specific to the DoD. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) assessed AWS's compliance with those additional security controls and approved AWS cloud computing services, reducing the time necessary for DoD agencies to evaluate and authorize the use of the AWS Cloud. While numerous DoD agencies, including the U.S. Department of the Navy and the U.S. Air Force, already leverage AWS services to reduce costs and drive efficiencies, the DoD Provisional Authorization makes it even easier for agencies to use AWS for more workloads.

With today's announcement, DoD agencies have an efficient way to run their applications on AWS. AWS services are listed in the DoD Enterprise Cloud Service Broker (ECSB) catalog, and DoD agencies can immediately request AWS DoD Provisional Authorization compliance support by submitting a Compliance Support Request to the AWS public sector sales and business development team. For more information on AWS security and compliance, please visit the AWS Security Center, http://aws.amazon.com/security, and the AWS Compliance Center, http://aws.amazon.com/compliance.

About Amazon Web Services

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services, Inc. began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup customer businesses in 190 countries around the world. Amazon Web Services offers over 30 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS Cloud services are available to customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Australia and China.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the world's best-selling and most advanced e-reader. It features new display technology with higher contrast, the next generation built-in light, a faster processor, the latest touch technology, and exclusive new features designed from the ground up for readers. Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle, features improved fonts and faster page turns. The new Kindle Fire HDX features a stunning exclusive 7 or 8.9 HDX display, a quad-core 2.2 GHz processor, 2x more memory, and 11 hours of battery life, as well as exclusive new features of Fire OS 3.0 including X-Ray for Music, Second Screen, Prime Instant Video downloads, and the revolutionary new Mayday button. The all-new Kindle Fire HD includes an HD display, high-performance processor and dual speakers at a breakthrough pric

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