[bmogilefsky]

You listed two IaaS provider and one SaaS provider. cloud.gov is a PaaS provider. There is no FedRAMP PaaS available to agencies, and PaaS is the level of abstraction needed to accelerate delivery of services the government itself provides.

We also leverage the fact that AWS GovCloud already has FedRAMP status as an IaaS to accelerate our delivery of cloud.gov (which sits on top of it), so we're piggy-backing on the money and effort already spent and eliminating the millions we would otherwise spend by having the government run the IaaS layer.

In other words...

> The focus really needs to be on building a process to better integrate private cloud services and gov't applications.

...that's what we're doing!

[ddelmoli]

Actually, there are several FedRAMP PaaS' available to agencies. A quick look at https://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/compliant-systems/ lists several compliant PaaS offerings, including one (Autonomic Resources LLC – ARCWRX) based on OpenShift. It's great to see activity in this space.

[aclater]

Correct - Multiple PaaS providers have reached FedRAMP already:

http://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/compliant-systems/blackme...

http://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/compliant-systems/autonom...

Both built on Red Hat OpenShift