AWS GovCloud gets high-level security approvals for Anthropic and Meta AI models
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Select versions of the Claude and Llama foundation models will be available for public sector customers via the AWS GovCloud.
Amazon Web Service’s government cloud service has achieved FedRAMP High and Department of Defense Impact Level 4 and 5 authorizations to host artificial intelligence software from leading companies Anthropic and Meta, AWS announced Wednesday.
Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama AI foundation models are now cleared to operate in federal digital environments deemed high risk and handle corresponding sensitive, unclassified data. Public sector customers that make use of such sensitive data — such as those in the Department of Defense — will now be able to access both AI products for agency mission work.
“With this achievement, AWS is expanding the potential for Meta’s open source Llama models to power mission-critical applications in secure or disconnected environments at a lower cost,” Molly Montgomery, the director of public policy at Meta, said in a press release.
Specific versions of Anthropic and Meta’s AI models with this FedRAMP authorization include Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1, Claude 3 Haiku, Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B. Some of the tasks they are intended to handle include simplifying compliance between application programming interfaces and building and customizing AI models based on these foundations.
“This authorization opens new possibilities for responsible AI use in scenarios where both performance and security are essential for serving the public interest,” Anthropic Head of Public Sector Thiyagu Ramasamy said in the same release.
AWS’s announcement follows its unveiling of a new Secret-West Region, a cloud service for federal customers that is tailored to host and handle secret classified information. The Secret-West Region will be deployed by the end of 2025, AWS Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector Dave Levy confirmed at the AWS D.C. Summit on Tuesday.
Prior to announcing the authorizations in partnership with AWS, Anthropic launched its Claude Gov model, a version of Claude specifically designed for national security missions, last week.