As the Department of Defense (DoD) moves from a primarily on-premises IT environment towards a cloud-native one, one question has been top-of-mind at the agency: How can cloud providers create a cloud environment for government use that is compliant with stringent regulations at the Pentagon?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) aims to do the lion’s share of the work in that cloud journey, with its AWS GovCloud (US) solution capable of doing 60 percent of the work, company officials said at the AWS Summit Washington, DC in 2021.

Whether it’s adding on Amazon Workspaces, artificial intelligence or machine learning, a DevOps pipeline, or a data lake, AWS’s compliant cloud is able to add services on as mission requirements grow, the company officials said.