cloud.gov news
New platform protections against malicious activity
In response to some recent incidents that caused outages on the platform, the cloud.gov team has added new platform protections against malicious activity. Notably, the team has added rate limiting by IP address to mitigate the effect of surges of malicious traffic on the platform.
Updating existing instances to gp3 storage volumes is now supported
Updating to gp3 storage volumes for existing RDS and Elasticsearch/Opensearch instances is now supported
cloud.gov Page’s Federalist ATO Extension
The cloud.gov Pages’s Federalist ATO has been extended until February 28th, 2024
Brokered storage volumes upgraded to gp3
Storage volumes across all brokered plans have been upgraded to gp3
New versions of PostgreSQL supported
PostgreSQL versions 13, 14, and 15 are now fully supported on cloud.gov
Announcing FedRAMP CSP Community mailing list
Email cloud-gov-compliance@gsa.gov from your CSP email to join
Independence Day 2023 Office Hours
Cloud.gov office hours will be cancelled on July 4 2023 in observance of Independence Day.
Upgrade your databases - AWS ending support for MySQL 5.7 in January/February 2024.
AWS is ending support for MySQL 5.7 databases starting in January/February 2024. Read on for instructions for how to upgrade your brokered databases.