Government Cloud Overview
MuleSoft Government Cloud is a secure, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)-moderate certified deployment environment that enables government agencies to use Anypoint Platform in the cloud.
Your agency might already use Anypoint Platform on-premises to build applications. With Government Cloud, you can leverage the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) to reduce the infrastructure and management costs associated with legacy on-premises integration.
With MuleSoft managing the Anypoint Platform infrastructure, your IT teams can focus on designing integrations. You can manage and monitor all government integration assets from a single secure, cloud-based management console.
| MuleSoft Government Cloud deployment permits deployment of Mule runtime engine instances into an on-premises environment (standalone Mule instances). Standalone Mule instances, and MuleSoft support for standalone Mules, are outside the scope of FedRAMP. The customer is responsible for ensuring that all data shared with Salesforce complies with any and all data and information protection policies, requirements, and standards. Review the MuleSoft System Security Plan for FedRAMP scope. |
Features Included in Government Cloud
MuleSoft Government Cloud includes the full functionality of the Anypoint Platform runtime plane (services and Mule runtime engine) and a subset of the Anypoint Platform control plane (browser-based management of APIs and Mule runtime engine instances) functionality.
Government Cloud supports the full API-led connectivity methodology and end-to-end API lifecycle management.
| Category | Feature | Description | Notes |
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Platform and Runtime |
Mule Runtime Engine |
Supports Mule runtime engine versions 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, and 4.9 on the long-term support (LTS) release channel. The Edge release channel is not supported, as it is not FedRAMP-approved. For more information, visit Edge and LTS Releases for Mule. |
Self-signed certificates are not supported. Required Mule agent versions:
Mule runtime 4.3 has entered External Support. Government Cloud also supports deploying standalone Mule runtime engine instances on-premises. For more information, see Standalone Mule Support. |
Java |
Supports Java 17. For more information on Java support, see Java Support. |
N/A |
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Anypoint Studio |
Use Anypoint Studio offline to build applications and then manually deploy them to Government Cloud. |
Anypoint Studio is not part of Government Cloud. |
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Designing API Specifications |
Use the API Designer web UI to design API specifications in:
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Use API Designer’s visual API editor to scaffold API specifications in RAML 1.0 or in OAS 2.0 or 3.0 (JSON). |
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As you add descriptions in your specifications and fragments, you can view them in auto-generated, interactive documentation in the text editor. |
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Sharing and Discovering APIs |
Publish assets in private Exchange instances and Exchange public portals. |
N/A |
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Simulate data for testing OAS or RAML REST APIs. |
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Create API Notebooks to describe each function in your API and provide a test area so that users can experiment with sending different values to your API and receiving output. |
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Building and Testing APIs |
Use APIkit to build Mule REST or SOAP APIs in one of the following modeling languages:
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Use this testing framework to build automated tests for your integrations and APIs. |
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Managing API Communities |
Customize and adjust the exact details of branding, look and feel, and the site structure of your Salesforce Experience Cloud site, using a simple point-and-click approach. |
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Add and publish APIs, API groups, and minor and major updates from Anypoint Exchange into your Salesforce Experience Cloud site. |
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Create, organize, and publish content for your community, including news, tutorials, developer blog posts, and events. |
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Use the Anypoint API Community Manager forums to ask questions and collaborate with other members of the community. |
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Enable your consumer developers to request access to APIs and API Groups in your community and to manage their client applications and contracts. |
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Managing Anypoint Platform |
Create Anypoint Platform accounts, configure external identity, and configure access and permissions. |
You can’t configure Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) as a client provider in MuleSoft Government Cloud. The Salesforce menu option in Access Management is not available in Government Cloud. |
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Send messages between different applications or components within an application. |
You can’t access or configure some Anypoint MQ features, such as client apps and unencrypted queues. For information, see Anypoint MQ in MuleSoft Government Cloud. |
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Share data and state across Mule runtime workers within a single application. |
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Manage, govern, and secure the APIs you deploy to Anypoint Platform. |
The feature to deploy an API proxy to hybrid targets is not available in Government Cloud. |
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Deploy, manage, and monitor your Mule applications in a sandbox, staging, or production environment from one central location, whether your apps are deployed in the cloud or on-premises. |
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Deploy sophisticated cross-cloud integration applications in the cloud, create new APIs on top of existing data sources, integrate on-premises applications with cloud services, and much more. |
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Aggregate and map metrics across systems, and configure dashboards and alerts. |
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Explore your application network for architectural review, troubleshooting, and policy compliance. |
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AI and Agent Connectivity |
Use the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Connector to integrate with the A2A protocol, enabling communication between AI agents across platforms and frameworks. |
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Integrate with AI agents running in Salesforce’s Agentforce platform to orchestrate experiences for customers, partners, and employees. |
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Connect to large language models (LLMs) via the Salesforce Einstein Trust Layer for AI-powered experiences, including embeddings generation for RAG-based architectures. |
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Use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Connector to integrate with the MCP protocol, enabling AI models to interact with external tools and data sources. |
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Design, build, and manage AI agents with support for LLMs, vector stores, and advanced AI services including chat, RAG, sentiment analysis, and image generation. |
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Access inference offerings for LLMs from multiple providers, enabling integration of AI capabilities such as chat, text generation, image analysis, and toxicity detection. |
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Access external vector stores and databases for semantic search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases. |
N/A |
Security and Compliance
MuleSoft Government Cloud meets all FedRAMP security and compliance standards, including:
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Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 140-2)
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Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 encryption
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53
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Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks
Government Cloud provides a FedRAMP-compliant control plane hosted in the US GovCloud (West) region. For the full support matrix, see Support Matrix for Control Plane Hosting Options.
For more information, see Security in MuleSoft Government Cloud.
Products Not Currently Supported
These Anypoint Platform products aren’t currently supported in Government Cloud:
| Product | Description |
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Anypoint Analytics |
API analytics and dashboards for monitoring API performance and usage. |
Anypoint Code Builder |
Cloud-based IDE for designing, building, and deploying integrations and APIs. |
API Data Gateway |
Connect Salesforce reports and dashboards to external data sources. |
API Governance |
Automated API conformance and governance validation. |
Anypoint Flex Gateway |
Lightweight, high-performance API gateway deployable across any environment. |
Anypoint Runtime Fabric |
Container-based runtime deployment and management on your infrastructure. |
Anypoint Security |
Edge security policies including tokenization and encryption. |
Anypoint Service Mesh |
Service mesh integration for managing microservices with Anypoint Platform. |