Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure region in Australia – the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. On commencing developers, education, entrepreneurs, and enterprises as well as startups, government, and nonprofit organizations will have greater choices for operating their applications and serving end users from Amazon Web Services data centers located in Australia.
Through the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region, Amazon Web Services is proposing to invest an estimated $4.5 billion in Australia by 2037.
‘‘Australia has a strong history of technical innovation’’ said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at Amazon Web Services.
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, Amazon Web Services now has 99 Availability Zones across 31 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 12 more Availability Zones and four more Amazon Web Services Regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand.
Amazon Web Services Regions are comprised of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinctive geographic locations. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region involves three Availability Zones and joins the existing AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region, which opened in November 2012.
The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region will enable local customers with data residency preferences to store data securely in Australia while offering customers with the even lower potential to boost greater productivity, more resourceful business operations, and enhanced real-time application performance.
Customers will also have access to sophisticated Amazon Web Services technologies to drive innovation as well as computing, storage, networking, data analytics, business applications, developer tools, artificial intelligence, security, and machine learning.
Australian AWS Partners also welcome the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region
The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the planet. AWS Partners develop innovative solutions and services on Amazon Web Services, and the APN supports by offering business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market assistance to customers.
Examples of Australian-based Amazon Web Services Partners include Cevo, CMD Solutions, DiUS, IntelligenceBank, Local Measure, NCS, Stax, Unleash live, Urban.io, and Versent.
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About Amazon Web Series (AWS)
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Series has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. Amazon Web Services has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment and management from 99 Availability Zones within 31 geographic regions.
With an announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more Amazon Web Services regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand.