Best practices for creating IaC for AWS GovCloud (US)

This article provides best practices for DevOps teams to maintain a secure and compliant infrastructure when creating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for AWS GovCloud (US).

Specifically, the article covers:

• Understanding compliance requirements like FISMA, FedRAMP, and ITAR
• AWS GovCloud (US) eligibility and sign-up process
• Networking and VPC configuration best practices
• Securing AWS GovCloud (US) infrastructure using IAM policies and security services
• Data management, disaster recovery, and availability practices
• Cost management strategies
• Service-specific considerations
• Example IaC code snippets for Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
• Additional security best practices like enabling AWS WAF, Security Hub, IAM database authentication, and using FIPS endpoints