AWS Secret Cloud

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Secret cloud provides a secure and scalable cloud designed to address classified mission needs and critical workload requirements for the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, federal civilian agencies, defense industrial base and supporting organizations. The region was designed and accredited to address the security requirements of the Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) Impact Level 6 and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503. Our classified regions meet the same high standards for reliability, availability, and durability as our other industry-leading AWS Regions. 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides connectivity options including AWS Direct Connect. This service provides high bandwidth dedicated network connectivity from a customer’s network to the region in support of classified mission-critical workloads.

AWS is committed to helping our customers and partners in the defense, intelligence, and national security communities deliver their most critical missions. By removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of the underlying IT infrastructure, national security customers are able to focus on keeping the United States secure.

AWS Services in Scope by Compliance Program (DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 6 authorized AWS services available in the AWS Secret Cloud)

Cloud computing provides organizations the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with mission and business requirements. With the cloud, customers no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster. Today, AWS provides highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure in the cloud that powers a multitude of diverse government and business missions.