August 17, 2011 — Cloud hosting provider Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday that it has launched AWS GovCloud, designed to enable US government agencies to move sensitive workloads to the cloud while meeting regulatory and compliance requirements. AWS says its new region offers the same level of security as other AWS regions and supports AWS security controls like HIPAA, FISMA, FIPS 140-2, SAS 70, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS Level 1.

Google Gears Up for Government Work Google has rolled out a government edition of its online application suite. Data for Gmail and Google Calendar produced in Google Apps for Government is stored in a segregated system that’s reserved exclusively for government agencies. Google Apps has also won FISMA certification, a standard for federal information security