Amazon Web Services announced today that it has received Federal Information Security Management Act (known as FISMA) Moderate Authorization and Accreditation from the U.S. General Services Administration. FISMA is a US federal law that was enacted in 2002 recognizing the importance of information security to the economic and national security interests of the United States….

Due to stringent requirements, many government agencies have been slow to adopt the cloud, but Amazon’s new AWS GovCloud could be the solution. AWS GovCloud is a new secure region specialized for US government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive data into the cloud. On Tuesday, Amazon’s senior vice president of AWS Andy Jassy…