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by jeanvalmarc 2340 days ago
GCP seems culturally a terrible fit for anything compliance-related. Azure and AWS both offer high-compliance regions (Azure Government / AWS GovCloud) that are absolutely necessary for many industries (medical, defense, etc). Slightly salty about this as I am currently migrating a legacy Firebase app because Google doesn't care...
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xyst 2340 days ago
Government Cloud seems to revolve around “access controls” to the cloud instances. I skimmed over one of specifications (“FedRAMP”) and most of the requirements seem like the standard requirements for any type of multi-tenant system (eg, user login expiry).

Doesn’t seem like it offers anything different from the “non-government” packages.

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morpheuskafka 2340 days ago
GovCloud is for government agencies though, mostly to facilitate rules such as no access by foreign nationals. Just because you are in a regulated field doesn't mean you qualify to use it.
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