On: Announcing the New AWS Secret Region

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-...

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

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

I see someone's experienced in AWS product rollout.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.