Finland's Ministry of Justice has postponed its plans to migrate its election platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As reported by Bloomberg, it was decided that the platform would migrate to the cloud this time last year, but due to the current international political environment and European push for digital autonomy, the MoJ has decided to postpone.

In an emailed statement, the Ministry said: "In the past, just over a year, the international political situation has changed, and the Justice Ministry decided to review the question on how to host the election platform.”

The current election platform is hosted in data centers located within Finland, and processes the lists of polling stations, candidates, and votes.

The MoJ has been seeking to modernize the platform since 2021, aiming to improve information security practices and the functionalities of the platform. After evaluating platform options, AWS was selected in 2025, with a planned deployment of 2027.

The platform will now be implemented after the April 2027 general election.

According to DataCenterMap, Finland has more than 100 data centers in the country, the majority of which are located in and around Helsinki. Operators include Verne, Equinix, Telia, and atNorth.

Amazon doesn't currently operate a Finnish cloud region, though it does have a Local Zone Edge location in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. The cloud operator's nearest commercial cloud region is in Stockholm, in neighboring Sweden.

AWS launched a European subsidiary, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, in January 2026. It is currently hosted in German data centers. The offering aims to assuage concerns for European organizations over data sovereignty.