4: IaaS Contracts
Stand-up contract vehicles for secure IaaS solutions Other Information:
Federal, state, and local governments will soon have access to cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings. GSA’s
IaaS contract award allows 12 vendors to provide government entities with cloud storage, virtual machines, and web hosting
services to support a continued expansion of governments’ IT capabilities into cloud computing environments. Within the next
six months, after completing security certification, GSA will make a common set of contract vehicles for cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service
solutions available government-wide. A government-wide risk and authorization program for cloud computing will allow agencies
to rely on the authorization completed by another agency or to use an existing authorization, so that only additional, agency-specific
requirements need to be separately certified. Our aim is to drive to a set of common services across the government supported
by a community, rather than an agency-specific risk model. This will allow the Federal Government to “approve once and use
often.”
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