Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS in AWS GovCloud now offers support for hosted control plane architecture, achieving an incremental addition to the service’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization. The authorization for the hosted control plane architecture builds upon the existing FedRAMP High approval previously granted to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS in AWS GovCloud classic architecture. With this authorization, U.S. federal agencies can utilize a fully managed application platform with hosted control plane architecture that meets the government’s most rigorous security standards, simplifying the compliance process required for procuring and operating cloud products and services.
The hosted control plane architecture further streamlines the customer experience by offloading the complex lifecycle management and security monitoring of the Kubernetes control plane and its underlying infrastructure. Engineered, managed and supported by Red Hat and AWS, this approach allows agencies to consume enterprise Kubernetes directly as an AWS cloud service, which significantly lowers the operational barrier for modernizing their workloads. For customers this results in more efficient resource use, which can lead to improved security posture, operational reliability and cost savings.