cloud.gov runs on top of Infrastructure as a Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the AWS GovCloud partition (specifically within the us-gov-west-1 region), which has a FedRAMP JAB P-ATO at the High impact level., cloud.gov’s mission is to support agency efforts to improve the way they manage information technology. cloud.gov helps government teams gain expertise in cloud technology, and it supports partnerships with vendors and contractors that prefer to build using cloud platforms., The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) evaluates cloud services and issues a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) to those that pass review., Managed service instances: You can provision a managed service instance through the marketplace in cloud.gov on demand, and let cloud.gov supply the credentials., A Platform as a Service (PaaS) like cloud.gov can save you the resources of managing your own cloud deployments, but it has to work the way you need it to work. cloud.gov was built inside a government development environment by government developers., The space-deployer service account is assigned the SpaceDeveloper role in the space (pushing apps, provisioning services, etc). The space-auditor service account is assigned the SpaceAuditor role in the space (read-only access)..