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Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now compliant with FedRAMP Moderate in selected US regions, enabling use for government workloads requiring this standard.

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services across the US government. Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency, allowing you to build always-available applications with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.

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