Amazon Web Services Inc. has launched the not subtly named AWS Top Secret West region, the company’s second cluster to cater for U.S. top-secret information.

Following what is now called AWS Top Secret East launched in 2017, the new cluster is designed to cater for customers in the U.S. defense, intelligence and national security communities. With the new cluster, national security customers can now pick their region to build highly resilient architectures and store data closer to users for latency-sensitive workloads.

The AWS Top Secret regions, announced late Monday, are environmentally friendly because while dealing with top-secret information, that apparently is a major consideration. With the new service, government customers can now include multiple Availability Zones, with each zone enabling the deep state to build highly resilient architectures. The Top Secret regions meet the same high standards for reliability, availability and durability as other AWS zones.

Other features include allowing government customers to operate ultra-low-latency production applications and databases much more resiliently than would be possible with a single data center. The secret region has support for synchronous data replication to a different Availability Zone in the same region or asynchronous replication to another region.

AWS customers are said to benefit from data centers and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations, in this case the U.S. government and its various divisions. AWS Top Secret is designed to cater to classification levels, laws, regulations and security frameworks more “than any other cloud provider,” according to AWS.

The AWS Top Secret Region is also designed and built to meet the regulatory and compliance requirements of the defense and intelligence communities. Accreditation includes security compliance under the Director of National Intelligence  Intelligence Community Directive ICD 503 and National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication SP 800-53 Revision 4.

“AWS is committed to helping our customers and partners in the defense, intelligence and national security communities deliver their most critical missions,” Max Peterson, vice president of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, said in a blog post.

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