Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to launch an AWS infrastructure Region in Mexico by early 2025. The new AWS Mexico (Central) Region will give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, wider options for running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in Mexico, allowing customers to store their content in Mexico. As part of its long-term commitment to Latin America, AWS is planning to invest more than $5 billion (approx. MXN $85 billion) in Mexico over 15 years. The upcoming AWS Mexico Region is the latest in AWS’s ongoing investments in Mexico to provide customers with advanced and secure cloud technologies.
“Cloud services are an essential part of everyday life, helping us to digitally and economically transform Mexico,” said Raquel Buenrostro, Mexican secretary of economy.
“AWS is excited to see thousands of customers in nearly every industry across Mexico innovate and grow,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS. “Our investment in Mexico reflects AWS’s long-term commitment to customers so they can take advantage of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The new AWS Region will consist of three availability zones (AZ) at launch, adding to AWS’s existing 105 AZs across 33 geographic regions globally. AWS has plans to launch 15 more AZs and five more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS Regions consist of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple AZs to achieve even greater fault tolerance.
AWS offers the broadest and deepest portfolio of services, including analytics, artificial intelligence, compute, database, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, mobile services, storage, and other cloud technologies. As part of a continued commitment to contribute to the development of digital skills, AWS will hire and develop additional local personnel to operate and support the new AWS Region in Mexico.
“Amazon has demonstrated confidence in our country and this investment is the result of the close collaboration that they have built with the government of Mexico,” said Emiliano Calderón, head of national digital strategy for Mexico’s government.
Organizations in Mexico are among the millions of active customers using AWS in more than 190 countries around the world. Enterprises in Mexico choose AWS to innovate, drive cost efficiencies, and accelerate time to market.
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