Amazon Web Services grants Ukraine $75 mln in service support for 2023

MOSCOW. Dec 1 (Interfax) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Ukrainian Digital Development Ministry have signed a memorandum for 2023 providing Ukraine with $75 million in service support to continue the migration of government registers and other databases critical for the governance system's functioning to AWS's cloud environment.

"The company has already helped with the migration of about 100 of Ukraine's state registers and critical databases to the AWS cloud platform. This enabled continued operations of state digital infrastructure and ensured the provision of services to Ukrainians in 24/7 mode. Amazon is making us more stable," Ukrainian media quoted Digital Development Minister Mikhail Fedorov's as saying on his social account.

In particular, the memorandum should help stimulate the development of cloud technology in government institutions and in business organizations, and the Diia e-governance web portal has long been keeping a copy of its server system in an AWS cloud and has been creating reserve copies on a daily basis, the ministry said.

AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon, provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and application programming interfaces to individuals, companies, and governments on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.