Amazon Web Services and Azure win higher federal security ratings to deal with national-security data

The #publiccloud services offered by both #Amazon and #Microsoft have received new, higher levels of federal authorization to deal with sensitive data. Microsoft’s #Azure Government got a “provisional authorization” for #DoD Impact Level 5 from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Microsoft said in a blog post today. The authorization will let Defense Department-affiliated organizations plan, assess, and authorize workloads involving unclassified national-security data.

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