Snowflake achieves U.S. DoD Level 4 Authorization on AWS GovCloud

Snowflake (SNOW) has received Provisional Authorization, PA, by the Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA, at the U.S. Department of Defense, DoD, to operate at Impact Level 4 ,IL4, on the AWS GovCloud ,US-West, Region from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services, AWS,. DoD IL4 is a designation that encompasses controlled unclassified information ,CUI,, including export controlled data, personally identifiable information ,PII, and protected health information ,PHI,, along with other mission critical data. In receiving this authorization, Snowflake’s recently launched Government & Education Data Cloud is better able to help U.S. public sector customers, including DoD agency customers, to deliver on their missions by centralizing, analyzing, and sharing data securely at speed and scale for operational advantage and increased efficiency, while meeting the data governance and security required by the DoD. “Snowflake achieving DoD IL4 is a reflection of our commitment to maintaining the highest compliance standards needed for public organizations to achieve their missions,” said Jeff Frazier, Head of Global Public Sector at Snowflake.