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Ukraine Data Migration via AWS Snowball Devices
The Situation
War Between Russia and Ukraine
The Requirement
The Law and the Amendments
The Law:
- Before the war,
- Ukrainian law required certain government data and select private sector data to be stored in servers physically located in Ukraine
The Amendment:
- A week before the Russian military invaded the country,
- Ukraine’s parliament passed legislation to allow government and private sector data to be moved to the cloud.
- Ukrainian leadership put out a public call for help.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) was among the first organizations to respond
The Decision (24th Feb 2022)
- Members of the AWS public sector team met with members of the Ukrainian government.
- The discussion was made to bring AWS Snowball devices into Ukraine to help secure, store, and transfer data to the cloud.
The Petabyte
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The Data and the Size
- More than 10 petabytes (10 million gigabytes) of essential data already migrated to AWS
- Data from,
- 27 Ukrainian ministries,
- 18 Ukrainian universities,
- K–12 school, the largest remote learning (serving hundreds of thousands of displaced children)
- Dozens of other private sector companies.
- Right now there are 61 government data migrations to AWS, with more expected to come
AWS Snow Family
AWS Snow Devices Use Cases
Data Migration Process
Ukraine and AWS
Reference
AWS and Ukraine Data Migration
About AWS Snow Devices
- aws.amazon.com/snow
- aws.amazon.com/snowball
- docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/what..
- docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/how-..
- aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/making-it-even..
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