Staying True to the Mission in a Rapidly Evolving Compliance World

Every day in 2025 feels like a sprint. For those of us running FedRAMP platforms on AWS—especially those supporting FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 environments—it’s not just about keeping the lights on. It’s about keeping up with the speed of change, the shifting standards, and the rising expectations.

Let’s be honest. The compliance treadmill never stops. In just the last 12 months, we’ve seen a wave of FedRAMP and DoD RFCs, updates, and Key Security Indicator (KSI) guidance that feels like it's doubling every quarter. We’ve implemented and re-implemented. We’ve shifted infrastructure patterns to meet emerging 20x requirements. And we’ve done it while still supporting customers with rev5 authorizations who have to stay live, compliant, and secure—every single day.

We’d love to say it’s all cookie-cutter by now. But it’s not.

Every Customer Is Different. Every Problem Is Complex.

What no one talks about enough is this: compliance is not just a checkbox exercise—it’s a puzzle. Every customer we work with presents a new variation. Different business models. Different baselines. Different operational constraints. That’s the reality of real-world authorization.

We’ve built our solution—the XBU40 platform, Command Center, and AuditShield—to deliver consistency through an opinionated design. BUT Staying true to that design while accommodating unique customer needs, adjusting for KSI logic, and aligning with different agency expectations is where the real challenge live.

As I explain to everyone of our new employees, FedRAMP and DoD compliance is hard just real hard!! But, it’s also where we thrive.

Real-Time Compliance Is Not a Feature—It’s a Struggle

With FedRAMP 20x, the bar has shifted. “Point-in-time” is no longer acceptable. Agencies want live, verifiable compliance backed by telemetry, automation, and trust center-ready data. That’s the vision. And we believe in it.

But let’s be clear: getting there isn’t easy. Especially when you're juggling:

• Deployments for multiple FedRAMP and DoD IL5 environments at the same time
• Customers maintaining their Rev 5 ATO
• New entrants trying to crack the marketplace with just enough budget to get to Low-Impact status
• Continuous ConMon ops, open POA&Ms, and weekly evidence pulls

We’re not just keeping the machine running—we’re rebuilding the engine while driving uphill.

Small Business Reality: Cash Flow and Conviction

And yes—we're a small business. Cash flow is king. Every delay, every slipped milestone, and every customer who hits pause has a ripple effect.

Right now, we’re watching some in the industry pivot away from FedRAMP—chasing projects in GovRAMP, StateRAMP, ISO, CMMC, or SOC 2. They’re diversifying. Hedging.

But that’s not us.

We're Not Chasing the Crowd. We're Building Bedrock.

We’re doubling down on FedRAMP. Not just in words, but in architecture, investment, and action. We believe that the path to secure government cloud services still runs through FedRAMP—and that if you want to serve this space, you have to do it right.

That’s why we’ve continued to invest in:

• Our opinionated design—so small to midsize SaaS providers don’t have to reinvent the wheel
• Command Center—to give teams real-time control, compliance visibility, and workflow support
• AuditShield—so evidence isn’t a panic-driven fire drill, but a continuous, automated process

This is compliance as code, policy as platform, and trust as a service.

Built by a Few Who Protect the Many

This work isn’t for everyone. It’s not glamorous. It’s not easy. But it matters.

We’re here to support the defenders, the builders, the mission-driven innovators who still believe that federal cloud security is worth doing right. We’re here for the few who protect the many—and we’ve built our tools to give them the speed, structure, and support they need to succeed in a FedRAMP 20x world.

If you’re a startup or a small ISV trying to get listed in the FedRAMP Marketplace…
If you’re scaling a SaaS offering for DoD customers and staring down IL5 complexity…
If you’re tired of cobbling together tools and running audits out of spreadsheets…

Let’s talk.

We’re not just chasing compliance—we’re engineering trust, one deployment at a time.