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> Doesn’t AWS have a gov offering?

More than that, they even have an air-gapped regions for more sensitive purposes, where you need not only to be a US citizen, but also a certain level of security clearance to access. As an (now ex-) AWS SDE working outside of the US, those regions were a pain in the ass to bring up your service in (as was govcloud, but that wasn't nearly as bad—at least there the ops guys could share logs and screenshots without having to work around an airgap)

The ops guys with direct access to those regions had to be on-site, as they only had access from a limited number of locations, and they were often severely understaffed. They were a pleasure to work with, but you could be waiting a day or more to find out your deployment had failed (the longest SLA I had to deal with in my time there was ~2 weeks due to some unfortunate vacation timings over the summer).