Category: AWS GovCloud (US)

Blue Origin is transforming space exploration with a mission to make space access routine, reliable, and cost-effective. In January 2025, the company achieved a historic milestone with its first orbital spaceflight—the New Glenn 1 (NG-1) rocket launch—powered by AWS GovCoud (US) and generative AI.

We’re excited to announce a significant milestone in our commitment to securing your cloud environments with a new Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization at the Moderate impact level for Tenable Cloud Security—hosted on AWS GovCloud (US). This achievement extends from the existing FedRAMP authorized service of Tenable Government Solutions (also known as Tenable One). Both authorizations underscores Tenable’s dedication to providing best-in-class cloud security for even the most demanding cloud environments.

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing two new AWS WickrGov offerings designed to help customers rapidly deploy secure communications capabilities across their organizations.

In today’s rapidly evolving security landscape, the technological edge isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. We’re thrilled to share a milestone that will transform how our government customers harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI): AWS is the first cloud provider to achieve FedRAMP High and Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 4 and 5 authorizations for Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama AI foundation models.

Amazon today announced it will launch its second Secret Cloud Region in 2025. The new AWS Secret-West Region will be accredited to support workloads up to the U.S. Secret classification level. With two regions accredited at the Secret level, defense and national security customers and partners can deploy multi-Region architectures, achieving even higher levels of resiliency and availability essential to their critical missions and enabling AI innovation.

Healthcare systems around the world are facing unprecedented challenges, from addressing chronic conditions to supporting aging populations and addressing emerging health threats, and it has become unmistakably clear that technology is no longer just a support function—it’s a force-multiplier that can transform health outcomes. At AWS, we’ve witnessed a remarkable shift as health agencies worldwide increasingly choose cloud computing to drive innovation, enhance research capabilities, and ultimately, improve patient outcomes.

We are pleased to announce that AWS is now listed on the GovRAMP webpage under the Federal JAB Attestation category for both AWS GovCloud (US) (High) and AWS US East/West (Moderate) regions. Read this post to learn more.

Building on an eight-year cloud transformation journey with AWS, The North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Division of Employment Security (NCDES) is launched one of the first generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, public-facing solutions in the state: an intelligent virtual assistant that helps individuals navigate the unemployment insurance claim application process. Read this blog post to learn more.

By using the robust capabilities within AWS GovCloud, Trackable Health has developed a comprehensive trackable solution that delivers real-time health and fitness tracking and personalized readiness scores, providing immediate feedback and AI-powered recommendations for improvement. Read this post to learn more about Trackable Health’s solution.

Organizations adopting modern software development activities continue to embrace the advantages of AI and large language models (LLMs), maximizing the productivity of developers. Amazon Q Developer provides you with an AI coding companion that delivers direct access for developers to the AI companion within the integrated development environment (IDE). In this post, we walk you through an example you can use leveraging the power of Amazon Bedrock to provide a coding assistant in your IDE.