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by schwank 2094 days ago
GovCloud is a separate partition from Secret. Different regulatory framework alignment and customer onboarding.

GovCloud customers only need be a US person or entity, beyond that any further regulatory alignment is up to the customer. AWS does not audit the IAM user base for nationality or any compliance requirements.

Disclaimer: I am an AWS Public Sector Solutions Architect.

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Ah it looks to be aws-iso (c2s.ic.gov, top secret) and aws-iso-b (sc2s.sgov.gov, secret)?
So, just to clarify: if a "customer" who happens to employ tens of thousands of people also employs non-US citizens (such as the DoD's foreign national IT contractors), then non-US citizens would have access to GovCloud.