FedRAMP cuts cloud approval to 4 months, but are agencies buying in?

Federal Times: The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s year-old plan to streamline the authorization process for cloud service providers has proven to be such a success that officials say wait times have been slashed.

But that doesn’t mean that some federal agencies haven’t tried to find their own way to the cloud.

“It is the one [cloud authorization process]. It is a requirement, but I can’t sit up here and say that I haven’t worked with agencies that have asked cloud service providers to do different things, ” FedRAMP Agency Evangelist Ashley Mahan said at the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit on June 14.

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