How Amazon put Ukraine's 'government in a box' -- and saved its economy from Russia
Source: LA Times
Since Februrary, Amazon has been playing Santa Claus to Ukraine, delivering planeloads of goods, including blankets, hygiene kits, diapers, food, and toys, for the war-torn nation and refugees in Poland and other parts of Europe.
But long term, what’s more important to Ukrainians than the gifts coming in is what’s going out: massive amounts of government, tax, banking and property data vulnerable to destruction and abuse should Russian invaders get their hands on it.
Since the day Russia launched its invasion Feb. 24, Amazon has been working closely with the Ukrainian government to download essential data and ferry it out of the country in suitcase-sized solid-state computer storage units called Snowball Edge, then funneling the data into Amazon’s cloud computing system.
“This is the most technologically advanced war in human history,” said Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 31-year-old vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, referring not just to weapons, but data, too. “AWS’s leadership made a decision that saved the Ukrainian government and economy.”
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data
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They'll be writing books and making movies or mini series for years to come. Look at how many stories have come out of World War II and they are still coming up with more. 
The exceptional bravery, resilience in the face of horrific war crimes has been astounding.
And should be remembered.
Since childhood.
My daughter says I am not from this planet. 
What do you think. Are we the earthlings or the aliens?
Often I've felt like I wasn't from this planet, but then again, I feel more in tune with nature than many people. I think that a lot of indigenous people like Native Americans or Aboriginal Australians are much more at home than many people of European descent. They seem to be more inclined to live in concert with nature, not in spite of it. And then there are Buddhists who have a great reverence for all life.
My daughter and I have had similar conversations. It starts getting very metaphysical after awhile. A song from Sesame Street popped into my head, "One of these things is not like the other. One of these things doesn't belong". 
Of course, it could be many of us are a mix of alien and earthling! We certainly are different from other earthly species. It dawned on me in recent years that humans as a species are inclined to be schizophrenic and self-destructive. There is often no real rhyme or reason for what they (we) do. Warfare alone is total insanity.
It certainly is hard to see humanity as created in the image of some "god", unless that god is irrational, cruel, and vindictive. Clearly god, especially the Old Testament god, was created in the image of man.
Okay, now my brain is starting to hurt. 
Bravo Amazon, Bravo!
