Learn how cloud.gov can help you deliver on federal government agency missions. cloud.gov is a shared service, built by and for the federal government, designed to help you deploy modern web applications in the cloud with substantially reduced infrastructure and security compliance work. cloud.gov is a self-service, Platform as a Service solution that helps you: (1) easily move existing prototypes to a production-ready environment, with reduced “time to ATO”; (2) transfer existing applications from data centers to make them more scalable and reduce costs; and (3) advance your agency’s use of the cloud by providing a place to prototype in a FedRAMP-authorized environment. cloud.gov developers, 18F, will explain its capabilities, what applications are best suited for cloud.gov, pricing, and more practical details that you need. cloud.gov has a FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) P-ATO at the Moderate level, and it leverages the AWS GovCloud FedRAMP JAB P-ATO. This session is for both government agency teams and commercial companies that support the federal government. No technical experience is necessary. Learn More: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/

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Deliver Your Agency Mission Faster
with cloud.gov
June 13, 2017
Nicci Williams, Senior Business Development Manager, AWS
Shashank Khandelwal, Director of cloud.gov, GSA
Britta Gustafson, Deputy Director of cloud.gov, GSA

3. Shashank Khandelwal
Director of cloud.gov
Britta Gustafson
Deputy Director of cloud.gov

4. Platform as a Service
for public service.

5. Redundant technical
complexity: building similar
hardware and software stacks.
Lengthy security compliance
processes: despite similar
systems.
Expertise: Needing to use
cloud, but can’t easily find cloud
operations expertise.
Visits to irs.gov (2016)
Problems for government
teams delivering services
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Low utilization: data centers need large
reserve capacity for spikes in demand.

6. Enable federal agencies to quickly host and
update modern web applications
...without having to duplicate common
infrastructure and security compliance work.

7. How it works:
You (and your team of employees or contractors)
brings custom or off-the-shelf code.
You use self-service tools to configure services
for databases, storage, CDN, etc.
You team deploys your application.
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8. 269 includes 54 fully inherited from AWS GovCloud (US).
FedRAMP JAB P-ATO at the Moderate impact level 8
Built-in federal security compliance

9. Shorter “time to ATO”
FedRAMP JAB P-ATO (Moderate)
DISA DoD P-ATO Impact Level 2
Agencies review and use these
authorizations for the platform.
Only your application needs assessment.

10. Great use cases
● Develop new systems and put them in production fast.
● Transfer existing systems to the cloud to make them
more scalable and reduce costs.
● Advance your agency’s use of the cloud by providing a
place to prototype in a FedRAMP-authorized
environment.

11. Ideal for
● Modern web applications
● RESTful services
● Horizontally scalable applications
Architecture
Applications need to be stateless: store
data in services rather than relying on
local filesystem
Well-suited applications
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Ruby PythonNode.js Java Go
Services:
Databases (RDS) - PostgreSQL and MySQL
Storage (S3)
CDN (CloudFront)
Redis
Elasticsearch
Identity provider
Drupal RailsWordpress Django

12. Customer teams are responsible for their own applications.
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● Build or maintain modern web applications.
● Install and use command-line tools.
● Be responsible for the security, operations and
maintenance of their application.
Team requirements

13. Current customers
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14. “New website will save FEC
approximately $1.2 million annually”
“I don’t have to buy servers anymore”
“I pay for what I use, so that saves us
lots of money”
Source: http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2017/03/fec-and-18f-
team-save-agency-12m/136598/?oref=ng-HPriver
Example: FEC.gov
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cloud.gov is based on the open source
Cloud Foundry platform.
Applications that work with cloud.gov also work with
industry Cloud Foundry providers. Agencies can also
stand up their own instance of cloud.gov.
No vendor lock-in

16. Pricing
Typically $11,000 to $110,000 per system per year
Package Price
Prototyping $15,000
Open Data $10,000
FISMA Low $20,000
FISMA Moderate $90,000
Annual access fee
+
Complexity Total
Simple $1000 - $5000
Average $5000 - $10,000
Complex $10,000 - $20,000
Epic $20,000 - $40,000
Resource use for a year

17. Example purchase for a year
1 prototyping package for lots of experiments:
$15,000 access fee + $5000 estimated usage
1 FISMA Low system for a public dynamic web application,
with dev, staging, and production environments:
$20,000 access fee + $10,000 estimated usage
Total: $50,000 purchase

18. How it helps your industry team
The reduced technical
and compliance
burdens enable your
team to develop and
ship to production with
less work.
Your partner agency
can purchase access to
cloud.gov with a simple
4-week paperwork
process, giving you a
modern platform
quickly.
Because cloud.gov
uses the common
Cloud Foundry model,
more industry products
can easily be run on
cloud.gov by agencies.
Deliver custom
solutions faster with
smaller teams
Provide off-the-shelf
products that run on
a standard platform
Get easy access to a
modern self-service
app environment

19. How agencies get access
Federal agencies buy cloud.gov from GSA through the
standard Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA) process.
It takes about 4 weeks to set up an IAA: a set of forms
signed by your agency and GSA.
Typically 12-month agreements.
Can cross Fiscal Year boundaries if your money is
compatible with that.

20. Next steps
Say hi! Email us with questions or to purchase:
cloud-gov-inquiries@gsa.gov
Get a sandbox space to try it:
Everyone with a federal government email address can get a
small free sandbox in five minutes, no paperwork:
https://account.fr.cloud.gov/signup

21. Thank you!