Amazon, Microsoft and Google have suspended cloud sales in Russia

Exxon, Visa, McDonald's and Coca-Cola have all suspended sales in Russia because of the war in Ukraine. Over the last couple of weeks, a number of tech companies have joined in.

We queried the world's top cloud infrastructure vendors to find out how they were reacting to Russia's attack on Ukraine. Each company let their public posts stand as the message they wanted to convey, with the exception of Google Cloud, which sent a brief statement stating its position.

In a post on March 4, the company stated that it does not do business with the Russian government and that it has no data centers in Russia. It said that it had Russian customers, but they were all based outside of the country. The company stopped allowing new sign-ups in Russia and Belarus when it updated the post on March 8.

Brad Smith wrote in a post on March 4 that Microsoft was suspending sales to Russia. That includes infrastructure services from Microsoft.

We can confirm that we are not accepting new customers in Russia at this time, as the last of the big three cloud infrastructure vendors. We will keep a close eye on developments.

IBM announced in a March 7 post that it was suspending sales in Russia. Krishna wrote in the post that they had suspended all business in Russia.

Cloudflare helps provide secure internet access via hundreds of data centers around the world, including Russia and Ukraine. The company thinks it's important to keep the internet running in the country despite calls to shut it down.

We have received calls to end all of the Cloudflare services in Russia. We discussed the requests with government and civil society experts. In consultation with those experts, our conclusion was that Russia needs more internet access, not less.

According to a report published this week, the economic impact on cloud companies taking these actions will likely be minimal. The two countries account for less than 1% of the world's spending on information and communication technology.

Netflix, PayPal, Adobe and others join tech companies suspending business in Russia