As government agencies embrace the cloud, Amazon is ensuring its Web Services (AWS) is well-poised to capture the growing number of cloud-focused government contracts.
Last week Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announced an AWS expansion in Fairfax County that will bring 500 new IT jobs to the area.
Launched in 2006, AWS (@awscloud) designs and offers IT infrastructure services to businesses and government customers in the form of cloud computing, including web hosting, application hosting, storage and backup, content delivery, and scalable database solutions. The company plans to establish a new office in the Herndon area of Fairfax County to support IT engineering and services for commercial and government customers of AWS cloud services, according to the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA).
“We look forward to putting more than 500 Virginians to work in Fairfax County,” said Teresa Carlson, vice president of Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “We appreciate the state and local elected officials who have helped us make this exciting investment in the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
AWS recently received a three year government security clearance to operate as a web services provider. The approval was granted through the Department of Health and Human Services, but thanks to the government’s FedRAMP program – which seeks to standardize and streamline assessments of cloud services – AWS services will be able to used by multiple projects within the department, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute of Health.
The Health and Human Services contract may not be the first government foray for the CIA – earlier this spring a report claimed that Amazon was building a private cloud for the CIA, although that claim was ‘neither confirmed nor denied.’
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