A data embassy is a solution traditionally implemented by nation states to ensure a country's digital continuity with particular respect to critical databases.
[1] This makes data embassies particularly attractive to countries that have already digitalized their most crucial databases and are situated in the vicinity of the aforementioned threat vectors.
Tasked with ensuring the security and immutability of these databases, the ministries looked towards data embassies as a possible solution for digital continuity.
[3] In 2013, then-CIO of the Estonian government Taavi Kotka made active efforts to determine, in which constellation a data embassy would be the most useful and effective.
[1] As a result of the lack of international legal precedent, data embassies have thus far only been created on the basis of bilateral agreements that are inspired by the wording used in the Vienna Conventions.