Ukraine Data Migration via AWS Snowball Devices
The Situation
The Requirement
The Law and the Amendments
The Law:
- Before the Russian invasion,
- 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,
- Ukraines 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 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 ,
- K12 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
- https://aws.amazon.com/snow/
- https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/whatissnowball.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/how-it-works.html#how-it-works-conceptual
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/making-it-even-simpler-to-create-and-manage-your-aws-snow-family-jobs/
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