Today, we are excited to announce that Cohesity has been awarded the AWS Government Competency. This makes it easier for federal, state, local governments, and education agencies to work with Cohesity to strengthen their cyber resilience.
With this competency, Cohesity joins an elite few ISV partners who have undergone rigorous inspection and have been vetted by AWS to provide data protection and security services on AWS GovCloud. “As the Federal market leader, this designation validates our ability to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant data security solutions tailored to the unique needs of the U.S. government,” said Kevin Youngquist, vice president, U.S. Federal Sales, Cohesity.
This competency highlights our continued commitment and expertise in service to our public sector customers. In 2024, we earned the “Authorized” status for both FedRAMP® and GovRAMP (formerly known as StateRAMP).
AWS Government Competency: Why it matters
The AWS Government Competency is a valuable designation that helps government customers identify and engage with AWS Partners who have demonstrated deep expertise in supporting mission-critical workloads in highly regulated environments. AWS Government Competency Partners have passed rigorous technical validation to ensure they are following AWS best practices. They have also demonstrated experience in delivering quality solutions to help agencies meet mandates, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation across civilian agencies, national defense and intelligence communities, and state and local governments.
Here’s how Cohesity’s AWS Government Competency helps government agencies:
- Ensure compliance with stringent regulations: Cohesity understands the complex regulatory landscape faced by government agencies. We have experience working within frameworks like FedRAMP, ITAR, CJIS, and DoD SRG, and helping agencies stay compliant while accelerating innovation.
- Support sensitive and mission-critical workloads: GovCloud Competency signifies that Cohesity is equipped to manage and secure sensitive data, including Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), personally identifiable information (PII), and classified workloads—making them ideal for defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies.
- Accelerate cloud adoption and modernization: Cohesity provides proven solutions and services that help agencies migrate legacy systems, modernize IT infrastructure, and adopt cloud-native technologies, all while reducing risk and maintaining operational continuity.
- Enhance security and resilience: With deep expertise in data protection, encryption, identity management, and threat detection, Cohesity helps agencies build robust cybersecurity postures and ensure mission resilience in the face of evolving threats.
- Enable scalable, purpose-built solutions: Whether it’s ransomware response and recovery, AI/ML, data analytics, or disaster recovery, Cohesity offers specialized capabilities that are tailored to the unique needs of public sector organizations.
Meet Cohesity at AWS Summit Washington, D.C. 2025
Cohesity is also sponsoring AWS Summit 2025 in Washington, D.C., June 10-11. Visit Cohesity Booth #548 to chat with our product experts, get a hands-on demo, and enjoy a cup of coffee on us at our espresso station. Find more ways to engage with Cohesity onsite and register for a networking reception with your peers.
Marlin McFate, our public sector CTO/CISO, will be speaking at the lightning talk “Disaster Recovery Isn’t Enough—It’s Time for Resilience.” Be sure to join this session to discover best practices for improved cyber recovery. Session details below:
Cohesity Breakout Session: SEC203-S
Wednesday, June 10th at 4:05 pm
Athena Theater in Expo Hall
Get started with Cohesity and AWS GovCloud today
Government agencies are highly regulated and need heightened cybersecurity defense measures to safeguard essential public data and services that are the backbone of the economy. Cohesity and AWS are committed to working together to help our government customers prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats with a comprehensive solution that fortifies cyber resilience and fulfils mandatory compliance requirements.
Explore these resources to learn more:
- Read the solution brief on Modern Data Security and Management for Government
- Request a 30-day free trial with Cohesity today
- Read how public sector customers use Cohesity to improve their security posture
- Watch all the Cohesity GovCloud demos to simplify and secure your backup and recovery:
- Video demo: AWS data protection with GovCloud
- Video demo: VMware workload protection with GovCloud
- Video demo: GovCloud – M365 DataProtection
