AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance

Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO’s own offices but through Madrid.

AWS has documented its compliance with D32, the NATO technical directive that defines the security requirements for handling NATO Restricted (NR) information in the public cloud, and the Spanish National Cryptologic Center (CCN) has assessed its services against that directive.

NATO then approved the findings and made them available to all its allies. AWS states that approved services may now be used to construct NR-capable systems in any of its regions located in NATO countries, and it has 15 such regions, seven of which are in mainland Europe.

A second clearance was obtained as a result of the Spanish phase, as AWS stated that both the CCN and the National Security...

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