Washington State AWS Cloud

The Washington State Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud provides customers with a secure AWS environment approved by the Office of Cybersecurity (OCS), located within all U.S. AWS regions. Using the AWS portal, customers have on-demand access to a customer-specific networking environment that allows for rapid provisioning of resources to include Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service solutions. Foundational compliance and security are maintained within the AWS Landing Zone.

The Washington State Public Cloud infrastructures eliminate the need for capital expenditures by the customer and allows them to realize cost savings compared to physical server environments. 

Features & Benefits

Summary of services and benefits provided by WaTech

• Pay only for what you use, without upfront payments and long-term commitments.
• Deploy apps in multiple regions around the U.S.
• Provides access to hundreds of services ranging from compute and storage services to various analytics and security applications.
• AWS Landing Zone and Control Tower, OCS-approved Washington state Cloud Public Cloud environment.
• Foundational compliance and security policies applied within Landing Zone.
• Consulting and assistance with Security Design Review service.
• Azure Entra ID integration with AWS accounts.
• Centralized billing through WaTech.
• Discount on seven S3 storage tiers in U.S. West (Oregon), (contract ends April 30, 2027).
• Disaster recovery using Zerto Disaster Recovery orchestration tools (optional with fees).
• Enterprise Backup Services utilizing Veeam Backup and Recovery (optional with fees).

Summary of services provided by Amazon

• AWS Enterprise support.
• Quickly upscale or downscale resources like compute power and capacity.
• Deploy apps in multiple regions around the U.S.
• Reduce the total cost of ownership by eliminating the need to maintain data centers.
• Broad framework, language, and tool support.
  • Containerization for development and production environments requiring microservices.
• Provides access to hundreds of services ranging from compute and storage services to various analytics and security applications.
• AWS Key Management Service manages secrets for applications and service accounts.
• AI and machine learning available within the AWS environment.

Summary of customer responsibilities

• Bring your own license (BYOL) or purchase from Microsoft.
• Provisioning of applications, storage, compute after the Account environment has been created.
• Compliance with security standards.

Pricing

Customers will be responsible for all costs associated with assigned AWS accounts.  There will be a 5% administrative charge applied to total cost of each account. These charges cover onboarding costs, Control Tower and Landing Zone administration, billing administration, and Entra ID SSO Integration, etc. Each account will also be charged an additional 10% fee for an AWS Enterprise Support contract.

Pre-Service Requirements

To obtain services from WaTech, eligible organizations must first enter into a Master Service Agreement (MSA). See if you qualify for an MSA.

How to Order

Contact the WaTech Support Center to schedule an operational consultation.

• Submit a ticket through our Customer Portal.
• Phone: 360.586.1000 or 1.855.WaTech1 (1.855.928.3241)
• Email: support@watech.wa.gov

If you have questions or need assistance regarding a strategic consultation, please contact your agency Business Relationship Manager (BRM).