Infoblox announced today that Infoblox Government Cloud has achieved FedRAMP Moderate certification, opening the door for federal agencies to run core network services from a cloud-managed platform that spans on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. The certification covers the governance of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, collectively known as DDI, along with network-centric asset visibility, two functions that sit beneath every user, application, device and workload an agency operates.
The platform is delivered through AWS GovCloud (US) and centralizes policy, automation, visibility and lifecycle management while allowing mission-critical network services to remain distributed wherever agency architectures and operational requirements demand. The offering bundles Infoblox Universal DDI Management, Infoblox NIOS-X Servers and Infoblox Universal Asset Insights into a single certified service.
“Government agencies are modernizing faster than ever,” said Mukesh Gupta, chief product officer at Infoblox, who argued that modernization depends less on cloud adoption itself than on building a resilient network foundation aligned with current guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
That framing speaks to a persistent problem in federal IT. As agencies accelerate AI adoption and continue cloud migration, many still depend on disconnected tools and legacy systems that fall out of step with NIST guidance, adding operational complexity, limiting visibility and introducing avoidable risk. Infoblox is pitching the certified platform as a way to close that gap on three fronts: strengthening network resilience through unified control and consistent policy across hybrid environments, accelerating cloud migration by replacing manual processes with a single source of truth for provisioning and scaling, and improving asset visibility by automatically discovering, validating and enriching inventory to eliminate blind spots and advance Zero Trust initiatives.
The compliance mapping is specific. The company says the platform helps agencies implement DNS architecture and resilience guidance under NIST Special Publication 800-81 Revision 3, advance Zero Trust and Comply-to-Connect programs, and establish the discovery, address management and lifecycle governance needed to complete and sustain the federal IPv6 transition required under OMB Memorandum M-21-07. The Infoblox Government Cloud listing on the FedRAMP Marketplace gives agencies and systems integrators direct access to the authorization package supporting their own security assessment and authorization processes, along with a defined path to evaluate, procure and deploy the service for eligible government environments.
The go-to-market picture runs through the public sector channel. Craig P. Abod, president of Carahsoft, called the certification an important milestone for agencies seeking to modernize network infrastructure while meeting stringent security and compliance requirements, noting that Carahsoft and its reseller partners are helping agencies access cloud-native networking solutions that support Zero Trust and cloud modernization initiatives.
For Infoblox, which counts more than 5,700 customers including the majority of the Fortune 100, the certification extends a commercial platform into one of the most compliance-bound markets in technology. For agencies, it offers something rarer: a certified route to retiring fragmented legacy DDI tooling at the exact moment AI workloads are raising the stakes for the networks underneath them.
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