Challenges & Solutions
Challenges
- ITAR data cannot leave sovereign regions or be accessed by non-US persons
- Satellite telemetry arrives in bursty gigabit downlink windows
- CMMC 2.0 Level 2 required for all DoD contract data
- Digital engineering models are terabytes and shared across primes
- Legacy mission software must run alongside cloud-native systems
CloudFormation Solves
- GovCloud region pinning with SCPs blocking cross-region replication
- Kinesis + S3 burst ingestion sized for downlink windows
- Config + Security Hub mapped to CMMC practice controls
- FSx for high-throughput model storage with fine-grained ACLs
- Direct Connect + VMware-on-cloud for legacy mission workloads
Architecture Patterns
1
Ground Segment Ingest
Ground station downlinks stream through Kinesis into S3 raw stores. Lambda triage tags passes and anomalies. Glue catalogs telemetry for downstream analytics.
2
Secure Enclave
Dedicated VPC with no internet gateway. All access through bastion + session manager with full recording. KMS with HSM custody for classified-adjacent keys.
3
Digital Engineering
FSx model store feeding GPU fleets for simulation. Batch orchestrates Monte Carlo runs. Results versioned to S3 with object lock.
4
Compliance Evidence
Config rules mapped to CMMC practices. Automated SSP evidence collection to S3. Audit Manager assembles assessment packages.
Business Outcomes
CMMC L2
Audit-ready posture
10x
Faster telemetry triage
Zero
Cross-region data egress
60%
Simulation cost reduction
Supported Providers
AWS
Azure
GCP
IBM Cloud
Oracle Cloud
Kubernetes
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