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FCS Ecosystem Approach

FCS promotes reusability and standardization for its tenants and the approach of security by design. GSA's cloud offerings are developed according to industry and government standards.

A diagram detailing the FCS EcoSystem approach, specifying what is owned and provided by FCS or the System Owner. Data Services and Runtime services are owned and provided by FCS while Application Services are owned and managed by the System Owner. The Ecosystem Capabilities Current state includes infrastructure, compute, containerization and serverless while the future state includes artificial intelligence and machine learning. Ecosystem standards include standard infrastructure, standard operations, standard deployment and standard security.