What Is Digital Evidence Archive on AWS?

Digital Evidence Archive on AWS (DEA) is a solution that enables investigative units to store and manage digital evidence through Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon DynamoDB. DEA provides a web user interface (UI) that investigators and other law enforcement personnel can use to create and update cases and associated digital evidence. DEA uses Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering to dynamically change the storage class used for digital evidence based on how often users access them, which reduces costs incurred when using DEA.

With DEA, law enforcement customers can optimize their total cost of ownership by reducing management of multiple storage repositories, reliance on physical devices such as USBs and hard drives, and operational costs associated with running a local data center.

DEA maintains file integrity, hashing, encryption, and audit logging to help customers meet requirements of the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy. There are no additional charges or upfront commitments required to use DEA. You only pay for AWS services used in your DEA deployment, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service pricing. DEA integrates with your external identity provider, allowing agencies to use their existing single sign-on (SSO) configuration. This solution can also support non-standard AWS partitions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.