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#2(Off topic): this page linked at the bottom of cloud.gov is quite interesting. Visitor analytics for government sites.
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#3This is going to be a god send for a lot of smaller gov agencies.
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#4This is going to be a god send for a lot of smaller gov agencies.
i agree
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#5Can this, how does this, get captured by industry leading it to become relatively stagnant with high prices?
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#6Cloud.gov was really promising when it was announced years ago, but in practice there ended up being so many differing security requirements and security boundary tensions between them and purported customers of them that they didn’t end up having any real impact because while some could use them, many could not, and those who could often found it easier to just not use them. There were also issues getting needed performance out of underlying Cloud Foundry infra and highly delayed updates, including security patches I believe.
Truly a great idea and noble thinking, but government problems are rarely about the actual infrastructure and almost always about the bureaucracy surrounding things, as was the case with Cloud.gov. I think this is partially proven by its current customer list, which seems to be largely smaller or discrete projects of agencies rather than wholesale agencies moving to their PaaS, despite Cloud.gov being around since I believe at least 2015-2016.
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#7Good overviews of how it is put together:
https://cloud.gov/docs/technology/iaas/
https://cloud.gov/docs/technology/responsibilities/
Using open source Cloud Foundry as the basis. Seems well thought out.
However, I wonder if a better approach would be to offer this PaaS but also lower level baselines that make using AWS easier and more secure so it’s not all or nothing to take advantage of their services.
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#8Considering this is only for FedRAMP Low/Medium, I'm not sure why any contractor or agency would pick this over AWS GovCloud, where finding people already familiar with the platform is easy.
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#9(Off topic): this page linked at the bottom of cloud.gov is quite interesting. Visitor analytics for government sites. https://analytics.usa.gov/
Also at the bottom of cloud.gov, and not surprising: "Built by 18F"
Neat work on the architectural and regulatory compliance as a service angle, especially for smaller organizations and teams!
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#10Seems like this is by https://www.gsa.gov/