Ukraine's Data Migration during war - AWS Snowball Devices
Published: 2022-06-14 17:32:03

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 **Ukraine Data Migration via AWS Snowball Devices**

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655205822536/PGxeJ7ifb.png)

**The Situation**

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655208003193/ZigrHcVtB.png)

**The Requirement**![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655206050165/dYWpFoBO1.png)

**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.**![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655207895932/QSNn55O5R.png)

**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 ![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655208521681/LrNMs6tFg.png)

**AWS Snow Family**

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655220349872/BLe-1L17y.png)

**AWS Snow Devices Use Cases**

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655209417851/WETxw7ooe.png)

**Data Migration Process**![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655209493061/3RDNDaQGI.png)

**Ukraine and AWS**

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655220516465/4zMvwTid0.png)

**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/