Yes – it can help. It doesn’t completely alleviate the need, because someone still has to manage the platform. While the infrastructure might be managed by Microsoft or Amazon, the data, the data access and the endpoints still have to be managed by the university. One solution to the aforementioned is a managed services provider, or MSP. Essentially, the university uses the environment, while the managed services provider maintains the environment. This is one method we see universities and research instiutions getting around the requirement of having a U.S. person on staff. This leads to ensuring that only appropriate individuals have access to the content in the Government cloud infrastructure.