The US Microsoft Corp. and Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation have agreed to cooperate in what would grow to become a $500 million partnerships to put much of Ukraine’s digital information inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

The US Microsoft Corp. and Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation have agreed to cooperate in what would grow to become a $500 million partnerships to put much of Ukraine’s digital information inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud. “One of the priority goals of our ministry is to digitize 100% of public services in two and a half years,” Mykhailo Fedorov, Digital Transformation minister, said Friday at the signing of a joint memorandum of understanding in Kyiv. “This cannot be done if there is no data center in which this data will be stored in our country. In fact, Microsoft may become the first large-scale project that will help us realize our ambitious goal.” The partnership is also to contribute to the upgrading of skills 100,000 Ukrainian IT workers through 2024.