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Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports FIPS-certified workloads on Graviton and GPU accelerated instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

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March 26, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-ecs-mi-supports-fips-graviron-gpu/

Amazon ECS Managed Instances FIPS Compliance

Starting today, customers can deploy Graviton-based and GPU-accelerated workloads on Amazon ECS Managed Instances in FIPS compliant mode in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. FIPS is a U.S. and Canadian government standard for cryptographic module security.

ECS Managed Instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions enable FIPS compliance by default, using FIPS-compliant endpoints, cryptographic modules, and booting the kernel in FIPS mode. This allows customers with federal compliance requirements to run workloads across various instance types, including Graviton-based, GPU-accelerated, network-optimized, and burstable performance instances.

What to do

  • Use the AWS Console, Amazon ECS MCP Server, ECS Express Mode, or infrastructure-as-code tools to enable FIPS compliance in a new or existing Amazon ECS cluster.

Source: AWS release notes




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