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

• https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/safeguarding-ukraines-data-to-preserve-its-present-and-build-its-future

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/