Datadog gets AWS Government Competency status Datadog announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Government Competency status. This designation reflects Datadog’s deep experience working with government customers to deliver mission-critical workloads and applications on AWS. AWS Government Competency status also recognizes the strength of Datadog’s platform in meeting the specific needs of government customers across security, compliance, performance and operational measures. At present, Datadog has been granted an Authority to Operate (ATO) by 12 Federal Agencies, as listed in the FedRAMP marketplace. “Serving millions of California residents at scale has required us to modernize systems and adopt new cloud technologies,” said Jeff Garrett, Technical Product Manager, California Department of Health Care Services. “Datadog provides the visibility we need to monitor containerized microservices applications across the entire stack with confidence.”