AWS launches Secret Cloud for industry’s classified workloads
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ByFrank Konkel,
Editor-in-Chief
June 30, 2026 05:21 PM ET
The company made several announcements geared towards its government customers, including up to $1 billion in cloud credits for U.S. intelligence agencies.
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new cloud offering designed to run contractor-owned classified workloads, a first for the defense industrial base and select research institutions that historically have had to build and maintain costly on-premesis infrastructure to support classified programs.
The AWS Secret Cloud for Industry, or ASCI, is designed to reduce the provision time for classified environments up to the Secret classification level from months to days, according to Dave Levy, vice president of AWS Public Sector. The cloud is designed for cleared U.S. defense contractors, research institutions and other organizations in the National Industrial Security Program.
"America's defense industrial base builds the capabilities that keep...
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