Government Cloud

CSRA has been re-certified as a partner under Amazon Web Services‘ Managed Service Provider program. The MSP Partner designation allows CSRA to offer proactive monitoring, automation and management of customers’ cloud environments, the company said Thursday. CSRA initially obtained the designation in February 2017 following an assessment of the firm’s application migration and cloud infrastructure offerings. An […] More

The Air Mobility Command and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to simulate events of an organization’s transition to cloud infrastructure in a move to help AMC leaders prepare for non-technical issues that may arise during the initial years of cloud migration. The U.S. Air Force said Tuesday the experiential activity occurred Jan. 8 at Scott AF Base in Illinois […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has asked vendors for information on a cloud platform that will work to consolidate the agency’s e-commerce portals into a single system in an effort to facilitate business processes and build up user experience, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. NIST wants to field a cloud system that complies with the […] More

CSRA announced that it aims to introduce the second version of the Defense Department‘s cloud computing platform on February 1, three months ahead of the initially scheduled launch date. The unclassified sections of MilCloud 2.0 will be rolled out at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma and Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, the Washington Business Journal reported Saturday. […] More

A Koniag subsidiary has received a contract from the Interior Department to help DOI’s Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians develop a blueprint to migrate information technology systems to a cloud platform. Eagle Harbor Solutions will evaluate the office’s IT assets, network architecture and systems as part of cloud migration planning efforts, Koniag said Monday. The […] More

Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, has said the federal information technology modernization report issued by the White House American Technology Council has named the use of enterprise cybersecurity platforms and the Trusted Internet Connections policy as some of the barriers to cloud adoption. The White House report calls for an update of the TIC policy and […] More

Amazon Web Services has supported the cloud migration effort of a U.S. Navy unit that aids the physical, emotional and social development of sailors and their families. AWS said Wednesday the Commander of the Navy Installations Command’s Fleet and Family Readiness Programs division (N9) adopted an unclassified cloud environment hosted on AWS’ GovCloud isolated cloud region for government […] More

CyrusOne is looking to establish a 44-acre data center campus in Georgia’s Atlanta metro area in efforts to serve enterprise customers including hyperscale cloud providers in the region. The company said Tuesday it plans to begin construction of the facility in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville by the first quarter of 2018. The campus is designed […] More

Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud region in France to help commercial and government customers run applications and store data within the country. AWS said Monday the AWS EU (Paris) Region represents the company’s fourth cloud region in Europe and 18th technology infrastructure region in the world. The new region includes three infrastructures called availability zones that are located in separate geographic locations […] More

The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its intent to award a contract to Amazon Web Services to provide commercial cloud services designed to host data classified at the “secret” level. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the proposed contract will cover storage, virtual machines, internet protocol management and network bandwidth services. The company […] More