On June 10, Amazon announced it will launch its second Secret Cloud Region in 2025. The new Amazon Web Services (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, the company said.
“The launch of the AWS Secret-West Region will strengthen U.S. AI leadership and accelerate the development of advanced capabilities and groundbreaking innovation,” said Dave Levy, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS. “Customers using the new AWS Secret-West Region will be able to use advanced technologies from the world’s leading cloud provider and see their critical missions enhanced by the operational speed, scalability, security, and innovation that AWS provides.”
With the AWS Secret-West Region, the national security and defense community can deploy multi-Region architectures for their mission critical workloads in two Secret Regions, each consisting of multiple Availability Zones. These Regions and Availability Zones enable customers to build highly resilient architectures and store data close to users for latency-sensitive workloads. AWS’s classified Regions meet the same high standards for reliability, availability, and durability as other AWS Regions.
AWS Regions include multiple Availability Zones, and the new AWS Secret-West Region is a significant advancement of its robust existing architecture. By using Availability Zones, customers can operate latency-sensitive production applications and databases much more resiliently than would be possible with a single data center.
“The Army welcomes the announcement by AWS regarding the availability of a second Secret AWS cloud region, which will enhance support for critical warfighting IT systems and data,” said Leo Garciga, the chief information officer of the U.S. Army. “This new region offers key benefits that align with the Army’s modernization priorities and will function as a highly resilient backup site, safeguarding combat-essential applications and information from disruptions, thereby improving the lethality and readiness of our forces.”
Source: AWS
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