FAR_Part_8_LSJ AWS Commercial 25-029 Final_printedv2_Redacted.pdf

This Limited Source Justification (LSJ) document details the Department of the Army's procurement of AWS Commercial Cloud Compute and Store Services through a sole source acquisition from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The justification stems from the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency's (ECMA) need to continue hosting mission-critical applications currently on AWS's commercial cloud under the existing Cloud Account Management and Optimization (CAMO) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA).

Key details include the requirement for AWS services to support Impact Level 4 and 5 environments for Army mission owners, with specific needs around data storage, real-time communication, and mission adaptability. The document highlights that AWS is the only Cloud Service Provider capable of supporting ECMA's current application configuration without extensive reconfiguration, and migration to another provider would be prohibitively expensive. The contract will enable the Army to maintain operational support for warfighting and critical national security activities, with a planned performance period beginning in 2025. The procurement is being executed by the U.S. Army Contracting Command at Rock Island Arsenal under Federal Supply Schedule contract 47QTCA19D000C.