Jane Edwards
A fully managed Amazon document database service that supports MongoDB workloads has received High authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for use by Amazon Web Services GovCloud customers in the U.S. East and West regions.
Under the FedRAMP High approval, federal agencies, public sector organizations and commercial enterprises can now use Amazon DocumentDB to store and query their JavaScript Object Notation-based document workloads, AWS said Friday.
JSON has become a standard data-interchange format for semi-structured data.
According to AWS, the database service is in scope for several standards and compliance programs, including the International Organization for Standardization, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard.
