A multinational corporation needs to migrate servers, which are supporting a national defense project, to a new datacenter. The data in Qis approximately 20GB in size. The engineer on the project is…

Downtime impact is an operational scheduling concern that can be mitigated through planned maintenance windows, not a factor that disqualifies a site entirely.

National defense data is subject to strict legal and regulatory frameworks such as ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), data sovereignty laws, and bilateral agreements that can categorically prohibit storing or processing such data in specific foreign jurisdictions. Unlike operational concerns, a legal prohibition is a binary disqualifier - no amount of bandwidth or scheduling workaround can overcome it. This makes legal restrictions the constraint most likely to fully rule out a site as an option.

Peak time frames affect when migration activity is scheduled but can be worked around by choosing off-peak windows, and do not disqualify a destination site.

All sites under consideration are on a high-speed MPLS network with 10Gb+ connections, and 20GB of data transfers trivially on such links, so bandwidth is not a limiting factor here.