As someone who runs 20+ cloud based government applications it is unclear to me how this is easier to secure, more performant, or cheaper than AWS. My first impression is this adds a lot of risks and unknowns in a critical area where there are existing and well-known best practices.
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#12The UK equivalent has just announced it’s closing down for many of the reasons people comment here - https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/12/why-weve-decided-to-decom...
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#13Cloud.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 per…
So we need BaaS?
Bureaucracy as a service?
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#14As someone who runs 20+ cloud based government applications it is unclear to me how this is easier to secure, more performant, or cheaper than AWS. My first impression is this adds a lot of risks and unknowns in a critical area where there are existing and well-known best practices.
It still is AWS. The AWS GovCloud partition to me more precise.
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#15(Off topic): this page linked at the bottom of cloud.gov is quite interesting. Visitor analytics for government sites. https://analytics.usa.gov/
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I was wrong. They are are using GA.
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#16Considering 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.
It’s FedRAMP High: https://cloud.gov/docs/technology/iaas/
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#17(Off topic): this page linked at the bottom of cloud.gov is quite interesting. Visitor analytics for government sites. https://analytics.usa.gov/
M̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶g̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶a̶l̶y̶t̶i̶c̶s̶.̶ I was wrong. They are are using GA.
You sure? Mentions sampling limits for GA on the page.
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#18(Off topic): this page linked at the bottom of cloud.gov is quite interesting. Visitor analytics for government sites. https://analytics.usa.gov/
M̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶g̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶a̶l̶y̶t̶i̶c̶s̶.̶ I was wrong. They are are using GA.
"The Google Analytics account that powers analytics.usa.gov is experiencing issues with realtime reporting. Realtime data may be inaccurate."
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#20Considering 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.
It’s FedRAMP High: https://cloud.gov/docs/technology/iaas/
There are different levels at the infra/platform/application layer. cloud.gov is built on top of AWS IaaS (though the PaaS could also be deployed on other infra).