Database company MongoDB Inc. today announced a new, government-focused edition of its cloud database MongoDB Atlas, one of the first offerings to emerge from its recently announced MongoDB Atlas for Industries initiative.

MongoDB Atlas for Government is a secure and compliant version of the company’s flagship cloud database that comes with FedRAMP Moderate authorization, meaning it can be used compliantly by hundreds of government agencies.

Alongside the new database, MongoDB is also providing public sector organizations with access to architectural design reviews, tailored technology partnerships and specific knowledge accelerators to help train public sector teams. The new offerings are all being bundled under the new MongoDB Atlas for Public Sector banner.

As MongoDB explained at its MongoDB.local for Government Solutions event today in Washington, D.C., public sector organizations have to be extremely careful about the technologies they use. Not only do they have unique operational challenges, but they also have to balance strict compliance requirements when trying to innovate to solve those challenges.

According to MongoDB, many public sector organizations still rely on legacy data warehouses that cannot provide the real-time data processing capabilities required by modern applications. As a result, they struggle to keep up with the latest developments in digital transformation.

“Public sector organizations want to move more workloads to the cloud for all its advantages, the company said, but they often don’t know how to get started or don’t have the right migration and modernization strategies in place. MongoDB Atlas for Public Sector is aimed at solving many of these headaches.

Atlas for Government is billed as a highly secure, fully managed and FedRAMP Moderate authorized developer data platform that’s hosted on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS GovCloud regions. As such, public sector organizations now have access to a modern database that offers a more flexible and scalable document data model, with the ability to process any kind of data in real time, the company said.

At the same time, they benefit from “world class security, resilience and availability,” enabling them to build and deploy modern software applications. Atlas for Government includes built-in security capabilities, field-level data encryption, network management and isolation, and identity access and management controls to help organizations secure sensitive workloads with no manual effort.

MongoDB Atlas for Public Sector also provides government agencies with access to the MongoDB Relational Migrator tool. Launched earlier this year, it makes it simpler to migrate legacy databases and workloads to its platforms without any downtime.

In addition, public sector organizations can take advantage of MongoDB’s executive engagement, which offers access to its own database experts and also those from its partner ecosystem, in order to establish best practices for modern workloads. MongoDB said it will offer numerous innovation workshops for public sector organizations that teach them how to modernize their applications while ensuring they remain secure and compliant. In addition, it has created multiple tailored MongoDB University courses and learning materials for public sector developers.

Finally, public sector organizations will gain full access to MongoDB’s Professional Services team, which will be on hand to help them accelerate projects from the initial concept to the first prototype and finally to production.

“The new MongoDB Atlas for Public Sector initiative provides a set of capabilities so organizations can stop thinking about modernizing their operations and actually get started,” said Joe Perrino, MongoDB’s area vice president of public sector. “MongoDB Atlas for Government – with its built-in security features and FedRAMP designation – is specifically designed to meet the challenges public sector organizations face today.”

The MongoDB for Public Sector program is part of a wider industry initiative that was announced by MongoDB in June. MongoDB Atlas for Industries is all about providing customers with domain-specific knowledge and expertise to help them get up and running with a modern database and applications in the fastest possible time.

As part of that initiative, the company has also launched its first-ever vertical database offering for financial services customers, and is planning additional offerings for the manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, automotive and retail industries later in the year.

Constellation Research Inc. analyst Doug Henschen told SiliconANGLE that MongoDB Atlas for Public Sector is a vertical offering that’s a part of the company’s effort to catch up with rivals such as Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc., which have long since offered vertical solutions targeting industry-specific use cases.

“MongoDB only recently announced MongoDB Atlas for Financial Services and intends to add other industry offerings later in the year,” Henschen said. “The government offering is one that makes sense as an early addition, as it promotes the recent FedRamp certification achieved by MongoDB Atlas, and its partnerships with systems integrators that work with government organizations.”

Jeff Needham, MongoDB’s principal of industry solutions, dropped by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during its coverage of the recent MongoDB .local NYC event, to discuss the impact of MongoDB Atlas for Industries on the insurance sector:

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