Amazon Web Services will invest $NZ7.5 billion opening an infrastructure region in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024, creating 1000 jobs.
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region will consist of 3 availability zones (AZs) and join the existing 81 availability zones across 25 geographic AWS Regions at launch. The region will be owned and operated by a local AWS entity in New Zealand.
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region will enable NZ-based organizations to run their applications and serve end users from data centres located in New Zealand.
“AWS supports thousands of organizations across New Zealand in their drive to innovate, succeed, and grow globally. AWS Cloud technology is providing new ways for government to further engage with citizens, for enterprises to innovate for their next phase of growth, and for entrepreneurs to build businesses and compete on a global scale,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman of AWS.
“Our investments reflect AWS’s deep and long-term commitment to New Zealand. We are excited to build new world-class infrastructure locally, train New Zealanders with in-demand digital skills, and continue to help local organizations deliver applications that accelerate digital transformation and fuel economic growth.”
AWS Regions are comprised of availability zones, which place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to help support customers’ business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple availability zones.
Each zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple availability zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance.
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