Amazon has partnered with the U.K. government to study the potential use of small unmanned aerial systems in package deliveries across the country with permission from a British Civil Aviation Authority-backed cross-government team. The shipping giant aims to explore beyond line of sight operations in rural and suburban areas, assess sensor performance to help drones detect obstacles […] More

Amazon Web Services has selected CSRA to join two AWS government cloud partner network programs as part of a strategic alliance intended to help meet customer mission demands. Falls Church, Virginia-based CSRA will participate in the Government Competency and AWS GovCloud Skill programs and have access to architects, certifications and other resources to pursue new business opportunities, […] More

Microsoft, CSRA and Amazon Web Services have each received a newly-created high baseline designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to operate their cloud computing offerings on sensitive, unclassified systems for agencies. The FedRAMP program management office says the new high baseline level is intended to unlock nearly $40 billion in information technology funds per year […] More

Amazon Web Services has developed a new private cloud computing platform and AWS marketplace to support U.S. intelligence agencies’ work to discover, buy and deploy software packages and applications. Jeff Barr, AWS chief evangelist, said in a blog post published Monday the company looks to provide a broad selection of big data, analytics, cloud transition […] More

NIC has partnered with Utah and Mississippi to unveil a new series voice-activated state government apps for the Amazon Echo designed to allow users to receive license alerts and take practice exams through the Alexa Voice Services. NIC subsidiary Utah Interactive worked with the Utah’s departments of public safety and technology services to create a voice-based app that works to […] More

InfoReliance will provide Amazon Web Services infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud systems to the Justice Department and Government Accountability Office under a prime contract with DOJ.. The technology consulting firm said Friday the IaaS and PaaS offerings will work to facilitate security and service delivery for development, testing, quality assurance and production operations. The contract with DOJ also covers several multi-day […] More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office has started to transition its public-facing websites to an Amazon Web Services cloud computing infrastructure. GPO said Thursday it will use company’s services to migrate Integrated Library System web portals in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Cloud First policy. “Moving these sites to the cloud demonstrates our ongoing commitment to leverage the best […] More

Amazon Web Services and Accenture have teamed up to establish a new business group that will work to help commercial firms migrate and manage their data workloads and applications onto the AWS Cloud platform. The Accenture AWS Business Group will also provide services for enterprise clients, such as application migration and development, refactoring, architecture and […] More

Amazon Web Services has introduced a fresh data transport tool for customers designed to transfer large volumes of data using secure appliances. AWS Import/Export Snowball works to transport up to 50 terabytes of data into and out of AWS and protect the transfer process with secure enclosures, 256-bit encryption and a trusted platform module, AWS […] More

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has included Amazon Web Services to its Secure Cloud Interconnect service, allowing enterprise customers to manage their data via multiple clouds. The company said Tuesday that the added service eases users into AWS through SCI using AWS Direct Connect to offer the “right blend” of options in the areas of security, performance […] More

NASA has partnered with cloud services provider InfoZen to migrate several of the space agency’s public-facing websites and applications to a cloud computing environment. InfoZen moved 110 online NASA portals into an Amazon Web Services-powered, open-source content management platform within 22 weeks under the NASA WESTPrime web migration contract, InfoZen said Wednesday. “WESTPrime provides a […] More

In a recent release from Synergy Research Group it was revealed that Microsoft and IBM are clear leaders in cloud infrastructure, while Amazon has been forced to face its new competitors. After experiencing a year-on-year growth rate drop to 49%, Amazon was unable to grow its sequential cloud revenues, shedding light on Google‘s inability to […] More