All as a Service: Infusing meaningful rhythm into the workings of the US government.

In the digital age of modern times, almost everything is available online. You can buy her dresses, order a smartphone, or even her furniture. Likewise, as you may know, the internet also helps you accelerate your business, and this is where the global ‘cloud’ comes in. Today, cloud computing is responsible for a greater number of services that are provided through the web rather than local or on-site platforms. In particular, Everything As A Service or XAAS is a collective term used to address all these types of cloud-based services. Mainly, it included:

• Software as a service or SaaS: Assign the software administration and deployment task to external service providers. Examples of SaaS applications include Salesforce, Google Apps, Dropbox, and more.

• Platform as a service or PaaS: Built on virtualization technology, it provides a platform for software development and deployment. Common examples include Google App Engine, Heroku, and Red Hat OpenShift.

• Infrastructure as a service or IaaS: It enables automated development and deployment of PaaS, SaaS, and web-scale applications. Featured IAAS vendors include Softlayer, Navisite, Exoscale, CompuNext, etc.

In addition, it also includes a lot of other services such as:

• Infrastructure as a service

• Platform as a service

• Desktop as a service

• Disaster recovery as a service

• Health care as a service

• Storage as a service

• Marketing as a service

How could XaaS transform businesses?

The ‘Everything as a concept’ is not just a business plan or revenue generation method, it is in fact the operational and strategic model of the core modernization. He has helped large corporate houses like General Electric and Amazon seek bold new opportunities beyond their traditional models of doing business.

Not just individuals or corporate people, governments around the world are also benefiting from this recent technological disruption. Obviously, the United States government is no different. While Amazon has expanded its in-house services to customers, GE is slowly transforming itself from manufacturer to retailer of goods. In fact, GE’s transformation plan heavily emphasizes everything defined by software and data as revenue drivers. Therefore, both of them have monetized their strategies to usher in better business results with the help of XaaS.

How could you help the US government?

The United States is among the leading nations to embrace technological innovations with open arms. He has also welcomed XaaS, which is evident from his collaboration with various IT organizations to accentuate the functioning of their departments. For example, the AWS cloud is eager to provide cost-effective and scalable solutions to the US federal government, which would help the latter to enable the Department of Defense and various civilian agencies to reduce costs, ensure efficient processes, and improve innovations.

Multiple cloud services

The company also provides the AWS GovCloud (US) Region (AWS Region) services to meet the specific regulatory requirements of US government agencies in conjunction with educational entities and various other partners, as well as customers.

The XaaS cloud infrastructure is also useful for the government to store criminal justice information. Currently, AWS has also been participating in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which provides a standard approach to authorization, security assessment, and persistent monitoring of cloud products and services.

Instead of purchasing licensed software, the government could use various XaaS components, such as SaaS, to maintain attendance records, improve the payroll system, improve human resource management, and more.

Alen

American Law Enforcement Network is already a 100% cloud-based software provider. It enables court officers and staff to use “available” technologies, such as Internet web browsers, to access their robust, unique, and secure solutions from any location. This is a welcome respite from the traditional methods in which law enforcement agencies had to buy, build, and maintain their own IT solutions. Law firms are quick to switch to this affordable, secure, and flexible alternative to traditional software.

Health.gov

Once again, AWS has been instrumental in providing its cloud services to the US government, to be precise, the US Department of Health and Human Services. The cloud service provider company helped to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to create a highly scalable and stable feature set for their websites. These cloud computing features are capable of handling thousands of users simultaneously during peak insurance underwriting periods.

In short, the Everything as a Service model addresses providers who have the ability to deliver rich services to the end user. It deviates from previous models that deal with products. His contribution to the sophistication of the US government has also been immense, with the help of prominent IT companies. However, there is still a lot of scope for the government to transform to XaaS in its entirety. I hope you take advantage of the best of technological innovations.