# Azure Government **Entity class:** U.S. government community cloud **Architecture:** [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition **Azure Government** is Microsoft's physically isolated cloud environment for United States government agencies and approved partners, supporting workloads subject to FedRAMP High and Department of Defense Impact Levels 4 and 5. ## Modern Defense and Cybersecurity Role Azure Government converts commercial hyperscale cloud into an accredited government operating environment. It supplies compute, storage, networking, identity, analytics, and security services for controlled unclassified information and unclassified national-security systems. ## Chronological Proximity Azure Government launched in the 2010s as federal cloud adoption accelerated and later became the unclassified foundation adjacent to [[wiki/Azure Government Secret|Secret]] and [[wiki/Azure Government Top Secret|Top Secret]] environments. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability|JWCC]] provides an acquisition route to commercial cloud; [[wiki/Palantir-Microsoft Classified Cloud Partnership|the Palantir–Microsoft partnership]] deploys Palantir platforms across Microsoft's government and classified environments. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] ## Sources / Provenance - [Primary documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/documentation-government-overview-dod)