AWS re:Invent 2025 - Accelerate mission outcomes w/ recent AWS government regions innovations-WPS204

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Introduction

In this session, David Schatzman and Sean Osfeld discuss AWS’s commitment to security, operational excellence, and AI innovation for regulated industries and government sectors. They highlight AWS’s $50 billion, ten‑year investment in federal, state, and local governments, delivering 1.3 GW of GPU/CPU capacity across four U.S. regions—including GovCloud, Secret, and Top‑Secret partitions.

Security, Operational Excellence, and Regulated Clouds

• Security first – Protecting data, customers’ data, and reputation is the top priority for AWS.
• Compliance landscape – AWS offers FedRAMP authorizations and DoD Impact Level certifications (IL2, IL4, IL5, IL6) across its government partitions.
• Global reach – While the focus here is on the United States, AWS provides comparable security and compliance capabilities worldwide.

Customer Obsession

AWS builds services around customer requirements:

1. Scale – 38 commercial regions plus four dedicated government regions provide the global footprint needed for mission‑critical workloads.
2. Deployment flexibility – Options include:
   • AWS Outposts (single‑rack or dual‑rack) for on‑premises cloud experience.
   • Edge services such as Amazon CloudFront.
   • AI factories (announced at re:Invent) for rapid, region‑agnostic AI model deployment.
3. Infrastructure as code – CloudFormation can be used to provision resources on Outposts and other edge locations, ensuring consistent, repeatable deployments.

AI Innovation and High‑Performance Computing (HPC)

Generative AI

• Managed services – Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock enable agencies to develop, train, and deploy generative AI models without managing underlying infrastructure.
• Responsible AI – AWS provides guardrails (e.g., Bedrock Guardrails) and a responsible AI framework to ensure ethical use.

High‑Performance Computing

• Broad applicability – HPC workloads span from commodity‑class tasks to exascale simulations (e.g., Department of Energy research).
• Integration with AI – Combining HPC with generative AI accelerates scientific discovery, data analytics, and mission‑critical simulations.

Recent AWS Government Regions Innovations

• Capacity boost – 1.3 GW of GPU/CPU capacity now available across four U.S. government regions.
• Partitioned environments – Dedicated GovCloud, Secret, and Top‑Secret partitions meet the most stringent security requirements.
• Compliance certifications – Continuous expansion of FedRAMP, DoD Impact Level, and other government‑specific authorizations.

Recommendations for Agencies

1. Work backward from mission requirements – Define the problem first, then select services that meet security and compliance needs.
2. Lead with compliance – Use AWS’s pre‑certified services to reduce the burden of audit and certification.
3. Leverage managed services – Adopt SageMaker, Bedrock, and other managed offerings to lower operational overhead and cost.
4. Adopt incremental delivery – Deploy solutions in small, measurable phases to validate value and adjust quickly.

Conclusion

AWS’s long‑term investment in the public sector, combined with a robust portfolio of secure, compliant, and AI‑ready services, enables government agencies to accelerate mission outcomes. By embracing security‑first principles, customer‑obsessed deployment models, and managed AI/HPC services, agencies can transform their operations while maintaining the highest standards of data protection and regulatory compliance.

For more information on AI factories, edge deployments, and AWS government region capabilities, visit the AWS re:Invent 2025 session page or contact your AWS account team.