Rules are important in the computing world, but they are everything for a government agency. That’s why Fugue Inc. has built a new kind of cloud-native automated operating system designed to mitigate risk and streamline system governance.

“Fugue builds it, monitors it, self-heals it, modifies it over time and alerts if anything drifts. It’s really the foundational layer for organizations to build and control cloud environments,” said Josh Stella (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Fugue.

Stella stopped by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, and answered questions from hosts John Walls (@JohnWalls21) and John Furrier (@furrier) during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. They discussed two recent announcements from the company involving cloud services and how it helps government agencies deal with governance and compliance challenges. (* Disclosure below.)

Last month, Fugue announced a platform enhancement called Team Conductor, which is designed to centralize the management of multiple AWS cloud accounts. “It’s designed to centralize control without slowing down your developers,” Stella said.

Fugue goes live on GovCloud

In the week prior to the AWS Summit, Fugue also announced support for AWS GovCloud to help accelerate the pace of computing work for government agencies and ensure full compliance in cloud operations.

“You can build systems in public regions, deploy them on GovCloud and they’ll just work,” Stella stated.

The public sector isn’t “that far behind commercial in cloud,” Stella said. But Fugue’s top executive is still concerned that there is much work to be done with agencies’ legacy systems. “There’s a lot of legacy stuff and a lot of inefficiencies in the process model in how things get done,” he added.

Despite the challenges facing government agencies, Stella was optimistic about what his company can accomplish and felt that the cloud industry is just getting started toward realizing its full potential.

“The only surface that matters in the future is API,” he said. “The modern cloud is still a Prius and the future cloud is a Tesla.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of the AWS Public Sector Summit. (* Disclosure: AWS sponsored this AWS Public Sector Summit segment on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither AWS nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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