Announcing the New AWS Secret Region

Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by AaronFriel on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:59PM (#15744145)

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-...

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by killjoywashere on Monday November 20, 2017 @06:30PM (#15744340)

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

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by jknoepfler on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:41PM (#15744908)

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

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by pnathan on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:25AM (#15746070)

I see someone's experienced in AWS product rollout.

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by jknoepfler on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:52AM (#15748678)

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.

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by killjoywashere on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:51AM (#15749235)

Thanks. This is the sort of experience-based comment that I read Hacker News for.

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by IncRnd on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:17PM (#15745239)

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-government-exte...

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by TheDong on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:24PM (#15745271)

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.

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Re:Announcing the New AWS Secret Region by IncRnd on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:45PM (#15752832)

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.

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