Xiaomi might be a name that you have heard a time or two here in the sates. It might register with you when Google’s Hugo Barra moved over to the Chinese based company. It might register more if you have ever used MIUI on any of your devices. A number of Xiaomi devices have certainly caught the Android communities attention this last year with the Mi4 and its high-end specs with a $400 price tag and the NVIDIA Tegra K1 toting MiPad for under $300. The company has done some great things, including taking out Apple and Samsung in a number of markets. One concern of users around the globe that want or have a Xiaomi device, is their data privacy. It is a concern simply because all the data centers have resided in Beijing China. I think I even remember a story where Xiaomi was accused of spying on the US through the devices.
Today Hugo Barra put out some details via his G+ page in regards to changes with the internal server infrastructure. The shift is happening in three phases.
- E-commerce migration – Earlier this year the companies E-Commerce Engineering teams started moving their global e-commerce platforms and user data for all international users from Beijing to Amazon AWS data centers in California. Completion is said to happen by the end of October this year.
- MIUI services migration – They have started to migrate MIUI services and corresponding data for all international users from Bejing to Amazon AWS servers in Oregon and Singapore. The migration includes Mi Account, Cloud Messaging, and Mi Cloud Services. Completion is expected by the end of this year (2014).
- Going Local – Next year Xiaomi will work to improve performance of their services in their fastest growing markets, such as India and Brasil. Amazon AWS is not available in those locales so they will work with local data centers to set up the service infrastructure.
All of this should ease current and would be owners of Xiaomi devices as well as ROM flashers of the MIUI OS.
Source: Hugo Barra G+ via AndroidCommunity
