Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is migrating MIUI services and corresponding data for all its International users (including Indian users) from its Beijing data centers to Amazon AWS data centers in Oregon (USA) and Singapore, Xiaomi’s VP of International operations Hugo Barra has informed on Google+. Barra mentions that this migration started in early 2014 and they expect to migrate all Mi Account servers by the end of this month and complete the entire migration by the end of this year. He claims that this migration is expected to reduce the network request latency time for Indian users by up to 350 milli seconds. Setting up local servers in 2015: Going forward, the handset maker also plans to set up local servers in countries like India and Brazil where Amazon AWS services aren't available yet, by tying up with local data center providers. These local servers are expected to be setup in 2015. While Barra mentions that the primary goal for this migration was to improve the performance of its service by reducing latency and failure rates, this development comes amid recent privacy and security concerns of Xiaomi phones sending sensitive user data like text messages, contacts, phone numbers, ISP’s name and IMEI number among others to the company's servers in China, irrespective of whether the user signs up for the company’s cloud messaging services or not. Barra denied this allegations in July this year and Xiaomi later issued a software fix making its cloud messaging an opt-in service for users. (More details on how Xiaomi deals with user's data here). It's possible that this data migration will…
