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Publication Date: 2026-03-30 07:00:00
By: Mike Corey, WWPS Partner Solutions Architect – AWS
By: John Stockard, Public Sector Hybrid Multi-Cloud Systems Engineer – Nutanix
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Technologists in the US federal government and Department of War (DoW) face unique challenges in delivering secure, compliant, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and services for their programs. These organizations encounter several obstacles. They must balance stringent security requirements with IT modernization needs. They face increasing costs from VMware licensing changes. Additionally, they must manage hardware replacement and reduce data center footprints.
Many federal customers face constraints with the mission-critical applications they support. These applications run on outdated, unsupported, or legacy operating systems. Such systems are difficult to migrate to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or other AWS services. These organizations need a solution that bridges their current environment to the cloud while maintaining security and compliance requirements achieved on premises. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re committed to helping our customers meet these challenges wherever they are in their cloud adoption journey.
Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters (GC2) on AWS GovCloud (US) provides a pathway, enabling Federal customers to accelerate…
