{"id":42654,"date":"2021-12-08T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=b9b1c2082b02824353bfb95df27082ba"},"modified":"2021-12-08T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:01:55","slug":"aws-launches-its-second-top-secret-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-launches-its-second-top-secret-region\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS launches its second Top Secret region"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Praharsha Anand<\/a><\/span>
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/a> has launched its second Top Secret region: AWS Top Secret-West.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new region, licensed to operate workloads classified as Top Secret under US security classification, adds several availability zones that are geographically separate from AWS Top Secret-East.<\/p>\n

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\nTogether, the two Top Secret regions enable the defence<\/span>, intelligence, and national security communities of the US to deploy multi-region architectures that assure maximum availability and resilience to national security missions.<\/p>\n

Through availability zones, customers can run their applications and databases at ultra-low latency<\/a> much more reliably than with a single data centre<\/a>. AWS also supports replicating data synchronously to a different Availability Zone within the same Region, or asynchronously to a different Region.<\/p>\n

Commenting on security, AWS said its latest Top Secret region adheres to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI<\/span>), Intelligence Community Directive (ICD<\/span> 503), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST<\/span>) Special Publication (SP) 800-53 Revision 4.<\/p>\n

The firm is the first commercial cloud provider accredited to handle government workloads across the full spectrum of US government<\/a> data, including Unclassified, Sensitive, Secret, and Top Secret.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2011, we launched AWS GovCloud<\/span> (US-West), making AWS the first cloud provider to build cloud infrastructure designed to meet US government security and compliance needs,\u201d said AWS in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2014, we launched our first Top Secret region, AWS Top Secret-East, which was the first air-gapped commercial cloud accredited to support classified workloads. In 2017, we launched the AWS Secret Region.<\/p>\n

“Today, with the launch of AWS Top Secret-West, we continue our support for mission workloads that span the full range of US government classifications.” <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Praharsha Anand<\/p>\n

8 Dec, 2021 <\/p>\n

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its second Top Secret region: AWS Top Secret-West.\u00a0
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