Ukraine's Data Migration during war - AWS Snowball Devices

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 source: https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-information-could-it-actually-hold

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

• https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/safeguarding-ukraines-data-to-preserve-its-present-and-build-its-future
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ukraine-prepares-potential-move-of-sensitive-data-to-another-country/articleshow/90114486.cms

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/

AWS re:Invent 2016: New AWS Snowball Edge Intro

• https://youtu.be/g0GvriwXoe0
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/aws-reinvent-recap-edge-computing-innovation-with-the-aws-snow-family/