CMS Cloud Fusion Summit

Wednesday, September 30

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The CMS Cloud Journey:

How a Federal Agency Continuously Innovated with Efficiency

CMS is executing on delivering a more modern, secure, and adaptable technology ecosystem. Supporting CMS’ leadership with cloud expertise, delivery experience, and the partnership needed to advance that vision from it inception, Samtek is a proud partner on this journey. From strengthening hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities to supporting smarter technology decisions, Samtek helps CMS continue improving the environment that enables its critical work incrementally, thoughtfully, and with mission impact in mind.

Building the Future of Multi-Cloud Possibility

2010

Consolidation Begins 

To meet OMB’s Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), CMS awarded the Virtual Data Center (VDC) contract, consolidating 50+ data centers, improving business continuity, and delivering significant cost and energy savings.

2011

Adopted the 
Federal "Cloud First" Strategy

Following the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy under U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, CMS adopted “Cloud First” and set the precedent for CMS to shift to service-based, scalable, and agile models.

2013

The First Footprint

CMS took its first tangible “Cloud First” step by using AWS to support recovery of the Healthcare.gov launch – emphasizing agility and scalability while sending a clear message of prioritizing efficiency, enablement, and innovation for CMS stakeholders.

2014

Applications Start the Move to the Cloud

CMS began migrating applications into the CMS Cloud, first through the CCS contract, turning cloud policy into operational reality and laying the foundation for the large-scale migrations that followed.

2018

From "Cloud First" to "Cloud Smart"

The federal strategy matured to “Cloud Smart,” and CMS expanded IaaS/PaaS (first AWS, then Azure Government), Common Engineering Services (CESS), and a DRaaS strategy across two FISMA-compliant data centers. 


Samtek

was founded the same year — 
beginning a partnership rooted in good engineering and care for the CMS mission.

2019 – 2021

Self-Service & Cost Discipline 

CMS entered a period initially focused on advancing self-service independence — automating provisioning and onboarding and establishing cloud governance — then turned to FinOps to bring cost transparency to a growing footprint. Samtek supported both, delivering provisioning and networking automation and helping build the Cost Estimation Tool (CET) and EAC capability behind the first cost-optimization wave.

2022 – 2024

Scale & Modernization

Capitalizing on the foundation laid to date, CMS entered an accelerated phase of migration and data center modernization (Ashburn/Kent, cloud.cms.gov, IUSG’s first customer database), consolidated CCOM into CMS Hybrid Cloud, and expanded low-code/no-code delivery within IUSG. Samtek supported this era as a delivery partner — following the awards of COMET (2022) and CCOM/CCSQ (2023) and building IUSG’s first CRM.

Today

Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Across Four Providers 

CMS now operates a hybrid, multi-cloud environment spanning Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), advancing toward a more centralized, optimized, and multicloud-ready future — with Samtek supporting both major CMS cloud ecosystems as a partner along the way.

Future Vision

A Portable, Provider-Agnostic Cloud Enterprise

CMS’ multi-cloud evolution points toward an environment where workloads are less tightly coupled to any single cloud provider, while still taking advantage of the differentiated capabilities each provider offers. Applications and services can be placed on the best-fit platform based on capability, performance, security, scalability, and value. Achieving that flexibility requires more than access to multiple cloud providers. It requires a common enterprise fabric for identity, security, networking, observability, automation, FinOps, and governance — enabling CMS to manage its cloud ecosystem consistently while preserving workload choice and portability. Samtek is proud to support CMS in building and operating that enterprise cloud fabric.

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