Cloud Services
In this section of the Playbook you can learn about the capabilities of the FAS Cloud Service (FCS).
Choose the Level of Support for your Cloud Goals
Customers on FCS can opt for systems that are unmanaged and allow a good deal of flexibility by the tenant to ones which are heavily managed. Learn more about the differences so you can figure out what works best for you.
Landing Zone Definition
The primary environment (operating model + corresponding offerings) for which a given tenant workload is aligned as determined through cloud advisory and enablement.
Greater tenant flexibility and isolation. Higher cost and effort.Less tenant flexibility and isolation. Higher efficiency.
Un-Managed
Definition
A portfolio of services for Tenant workloads where the Tenant carries the majority of the responsibilities with basic services from the cloud ecosystem.
- Minimal cloud ecosystem support required
Semi-Managed
Definition
A portfolio of services for Tenant workloads with a shared set of responsibilities with the cloud ecosystem.
- Implemented for single tenant use cases for domains that have the potential to support multiple tenants
Fully Managed
Definition
A portfolio of services for Tenant workloads with the least number of responsibilities for the Tenant allowing them to focus on delivering business value.
- Cloud ecosystem support scales based on shared service approaches
FCS Product Documentation
Comprehensive FCS Product Documentation covering the major product lines of the FCS product mix and the product definitions for each of those products.
**Access to this link is limited to users via Virtual Desktop or GFE
Cloud Ecosystem of Managed Services
This ecosystem of capabilities provides compute services for a variety of business needs supported via the Freedom Pipeline executed on the Multi-tenant Container as a Service (MCaaS) environment. These tools, technologies, and products provide freedom of choice, resource fidelity, and insurance against obsolescence.
Application Runtime
Application Runtime capabilities provide the environments to operate applications from lower level languages and frameworks to higher level tools and services. The capabilities are grouped based on the level of runtime. Several groups having more than one option supported by FCS.
Application RuntimeAPI Exchange
The Application Programming Interface (API) Exchange offers a platform for application teams to configure, expose, and operate an API for consumption by identified users. The API Exchange enables customers to access and use those APIs to develop their own software applications and products, increasing productivity and reducing the amount of duplicative API development.
API ExchangeData Capabilities
Capabilities are discrete functional components for enabling a business or technical activity. These capabilities can be used in concert to enable various plays within the playbook. They are grouped into Services that are security pre-approved with associated security controls accelerating the ATO of our tenant applications. For data, the defined services are Data Governance, Data Management and Data Analytics.
Data Services: Governance
Data Governance capabilities refers to a mechanism for supporting the CDO and business organizations in managing and tracking data policy, change management; stewardship roles and responsibilities; data lineage; metadata/dictionary management; data usage; notifications.
Data GovernanceData Services: Management
Data Management capabilities refers to platform components to manage and track data access and sharing; data availability; data storage; data transformation; and notifications. In addtion this provides capabilities for developing and managing the ETL (extract, transform, and load) services with good data quality.
Data ManagementData Services: Analytics
Data Analytics capabilities enable data exploration, analytics, data refinement, machine learning, and BI/Reporting. BI/reporting capabilities allow users to view real-time performance and operational data through dashboards to enhance existing agency-driven mission priorities. Advanced analytics capabilities, enable business units and users to use more complex analytical techniques (such as artificial intelligence and machine learning) to solve business problems and enrich their service offering to customers.
Data AnalyticsStandard Integration Services
Integration Services offer capabilities that support a number of different integration patterns so that applications and services can interact. Applications aligned to service-oriented and event-driven architectures can exchange information via synchronous and asynchronous communcation.
Integration ServicesStandard Deployment
Standard Deployment capabilities enable application developers to produce secure, performant, and functional code. These include capabilities to support both containerized and non-containerized application architectures.
Standard DeploymentStandard Operations
Standard Operations capabilities support the activities of the software development life cycle from the moment an application version is produced to operating and monitoring that application in the designated cloud environment.
Standard OperationsStandard Infrastructure
Standard Infrastructure capabilities provide the foundational services so that users internal and external to GSA can access applications in a secure and performant way.
Standard InfrastructureExplore the various technologies available on FCS and learn about their uses.
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