AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance

Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO’s own offices but through Madrid.

AWS has documented its compliance with D32, the NATO technical directive that defines the security requirements for handling NATO Restricted (NR) information in the public cloud, and the Spanish National Cryptologic Center (CCN) has assessed its services against that directive.

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