{"id":58627,"date":"2022-03-09T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58627"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:42:36","slug":"aws-halts-operations-in-russia-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/aws-halts-operations-in-russia-and-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Halts Operations in Russia and Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform has paused registration for new users from Russia and Belarus. The NYT reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Given the current events, the uncertainty and the lack of credits in Russia, we are not taking on new Russian AWS customers,&#8221; said Drew Herdener, the platform&#8217;s spokesperson.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The changes took effect as early as March 5\u20136, but Amazon only announced them now.<\/p>\n<p>AWS has no offices or data centers in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the British payments processor Wirex blocked access to its products for Russian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Restrictions for users from Russia were imposed by cryptocurrency exchanges Kuna, WhiteBIT and CEX.io, as well as the largest trading platforms in South Korea \u2014 Bithumb, Upbit, Coinone and Korbit.<\/p>\n<p>Binance announced that from March 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/binance-to-block-visa-and-mastercard-transactions-issued-in-russia\">will stop supporting transactions<\/a> with Visa and Mastercard cards issued in the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) has paused registration for new users from Russia and Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"AWS halts new registrations for Russia and Belarus.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,2300],"class_list":["post-58627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-amazon","tag-crisis-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"32","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"AWS halts new registrations for Russia and Belarus.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58628,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627\/revisions\/58628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}