As part of former federal CIO Vivek Kundra’s plan, federal agencies have adopted a “cloud-first” policy. Of the $80 billion U.S. Federal IT budget, 25% of IT spend flows through GSA. GSA is taking a lot of the upfront work to make it easier for Federal agencies to buy cloud services. The General Services Administration (GSA) acts as a combination Sears catalog and Amazon for federal agencies. GSA has already certified the Google cloud at a FISMA moderate level.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2220659/gsa-eases-cloud-computing-procurement.html