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Finland halts election platform's move to Amazon Web Services

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.

Reported heise online report, 26 March 2026

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

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