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# Finland halts election platform's move to Amazon Web Services
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-03-26-finland-halts-election-platform-aws-migration/
- Published: 2026-03-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-02T09:20:38.000Z
- Description: Finland's Ministry of Justice shelved a 2025 decision to migrate its election platform, covering candidate lists, voter registers and vote counting, to Amazon Web Services, citing the US Cloud Act and keeping data on domestic servers through the 2027 election.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Policy and law, #news, #reported

Reported [heise online report, 26 March 2026](https://www.heise.de/en/news/Finnish-government-not-moving-election-system-to-AWS-for-now-11224861.html?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish a permanent decision or long-term hosting solution, which the ministry says will follow later.

**How this item counts.** Towards autonomy: it changes who owns, who operates, whose law governs. Binding 3 of 3 (in force or operating), scale 1 of 3 (small), Reported counts half: weight +4.5 of 36 possible. Finland halts AWS migration of election platform over Cloud Act, keeps data on domestic servers.. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)