Public Cloud

WA State Azure Cloud

The Washington State Azure Cloud provides customers with an OCS approved secure Azure environment located within all US Azure regions. Using the Azure portal, customers have on-demand access to customer specific networking environment that allows for rapid provisioning of resources to include IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.

Features & Benefits

Services Provided by WaTech

  •  A shared express route circuit to the cloud.
  • Integrated top-down state policies applied automatically with audit mode enabled for multiple compliance offerings such as NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 and HIPAA.
  • Identity governance and access management across the tenant.
    • Supports Enterprise Active Directory (EAD) authentication through Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) for identity management.
  • Data stored across as many or as few Microsoft datacenters as required, scales with cost.
  • Consulting and assistance with Security Design Review.
  • The environment can evolve to comply with future state Office of Cybersecurity standards.
  • vNET design and configuration
  • Disaster recovery using Zerto Disaster Recovery orchestration tools (optional with fees).
  • Enterprise Backup Services utilizing Veeam Backup and Recovery (optional with fees).

Services Provided by Microsoft in Brief

  • Automated self-provisioning via the Azure Portal.
  • Pay only for what you use, without upfront payments and long-term commitments.
  • Quickly upscale or downscale resources like compute, power and capacity.
  • Deploy apps in multiple regions around the US.
  • Reduce the total cost of ownership by eliminating the need to maintain data centers.
  • SQL, NoSQL, Postgres database capacity, Database as a service.
  • Data warehouses as required for large data analytics.
  • Azure Vault utilizes FIPS-140-2 Level 2 and 3 validated HSMs, allows for creation and import of encryption keys in minutes. Cloud scaling and global redundancy without applications having direct access to keys.
  • Azure Site Recovery and Server Backup allows for DR of both on-prem and in-cloud resources.
  • Broad framework, language, and tool support.
    • Containerization for development and production environments requiring microservices.
  • Azure virtual networking.
  • Provides access to hundreds of services ranging from compute and storage services to various analytics and security applications.
  • AI and Machine Learning are available within the Azure environment.

Customer Responsibility

  • Bring Your Own License (BYOL) or purchase from Microsoft.
  • Provisioning of applications, storage, compute after the Subscription environment has been created.
  • Compliance with security standards.

Pricing

Customers will be responsible for all costs associated with assigned Azure Subscriptions.  There will be a 5% administrative charge applied to total cost of each account.  These costs cover onboarding costs, Highway to the Cloud, Azure Express Route, billing administration, Azure service contracts, redundant Fortinet firewalls, and Entra ID domain services.

WA State AWS Cloud

The Washington State AWS Cloud provides customers with an OCS approved secure AWS environment located within all US AWS regions. Using the AWS portal, customers have on-demand access to customer specific networking environment that allows for rapid provisioning of resources to include IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions. Foundational Compliance and Security are maintained within the AWS Landing Zone.

Features & Benefits

Services Provided by WaTech

  • A shared Express Route circuit to the cloud.
  • Pay only for what you use, without upfront payments and long-term commitments.
  • Deploy apps in multiple regions around the US.
  • 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 WS Cloud Public Cloud environment.
  • Foundational compliance and security policies applied within Landing Zone.
  • Consulting and assistance with Security Design Review.
  • Azure Entra ID integration with AWS accounts. Centralized Billing through WaTech.
  • Discount on seven S3 storage tiers in US 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). 

Services Provided by Amazon in Brief

  • Quickly upscale or downscale resources like compute power and capacity.
  • Deploy apps in multiple regions around the US.
  • 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 (KMS) manages secrets for applications and service accounts.
  • AI and Machine Learning available within the AWS environment.

Customer Responsibility in Brief

  • 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 costs cover onboarding costs, Control Tower and Landing Zone administration, billing administration, AWS Enterprise Service contract

Service Key Performance Indicators

  • Amount of data in Azure Blob/AWS S3
  • Security compliance with Microsoft security standard
  • Security compliance with AWS security standard
  • Overall cloud spend in Azure and AWS