Technology Insights

The FedRAMP authorization process requires agencies to evaluate cloud service providers against a standardized set of security controls. In practice, the process takes longer than expected because of documentation gaps, unclear responsibilities between the agency and the CSP, and inconsistent interpretation of control requirements.

This guide walks through the three authorization paths (JAB, Agency, and the updated FedRAMP 2.0 process), explains where delays typically occur, and provides a checklist of artifacts that agencies should require from CSPs before starting the assessment. We also cover how to use inheritable controls from the CSP's authorization package to reduce the agency's own documentation burden.

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Federal agencies increasingly run workloads across both AWS GovCloud and Azure Government. The reasons are practical: some applications have dependencies on specific cloud services, contract vehicles may specify a particular provider, and agencies want to avoid vendor lock-in for critical systems.

This article evaluates the real costs of multi-cloud (duplicate tooling, split expertise, separate authorization packages) against the benefits (vendor negotiating leverage, reduced single-provider risk, workload-specific optimization). We include a decision framework for determining when multi-cloud makes sense versus when it adds cost and complexity without meaningful benefit.

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