Amazon Scores Ukrainian Award for Helping with the War
Amazon on Wednesday was awarded the "Distinction of the World" by Ukrainian officials for its help in aiding Kyiv in its war against Russia.
"Amazon AWS has been actively supporting Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation," the Ministry of Digital Development said according to a report by Interfax. "The company helped save our digital infrastructure during the war."
The ministry championed Amazon’s help to secure Ukraine’s "state registries and critical databases" by transferring them to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
"And from the first days of the war, it banned registration [of] new customers from Russia and Belarus," the ministry added.
The ministry’s Deputy Prime Minister, Mikhail Fedorov, also reportedly spoke with Director of State Transformation of Amazon AWS, Liam Maxwell, on ways the tech giant and the Ukrainian government can cooperate further as the war-torn nation looks to rebuild.
"Maxwell noted that the company is ready to help with technological solutions for the digitalization of the public sector and the judicial system," the ministry said.
Amazon has joined the ranks of other top companies like Google and Microsoft which had previously received the award reportedly created by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.