Amazon helped rescue the Ukrainian government and economy using suitcase-sized hard drives brought in over the Polish border: 'You can't take out the cloud with a cruise missile'
Since being invaded by Russia in February, Amazon has become an unlikely hero to the Ukrainian people, donating medical supplies, food, toys, and a $75 million investment in developing cloud-based backups of essential government data, according to aUsing suitcase-sized solid-state hard drives, called Snowball Edge units — delivered to Ukraine through the Polish border — Amazon has helped back up critical infrastructure and economic information beginning the day Russia launched its invasion.
More than 10 million gigabytes of Ukrainian government and economic data has been saved so far, including data from"27 Ukrainian ministries, 18 Ukrainian universities, the
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