Amazon has announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, which expands its global cloud infrastructure. This new region will offer developers, startups, enterprises, and organizations in various sectors, including financial services, retail, education, government, and nonprofits, more flexibility to run applications and serve users from data centers located in New Zealand.
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As part of its long-term commitment to New Zealand, Amazon plans to invest over NZD 7.5 billion to support the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of its data centers. The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region will start with three Availability Zones, adding to AWS’s global total of 120 Availability Zones across 38 regions.
Additionally, AWS has announced plans for 10 more Availability Zones and three new regions in Chile, Saudi Arabia, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The New Zealand region is designed to be sovereign, aligning with AWS’s foundational approach to providing secure and compliant cloud infrastructure. Customers will have access to AWS’s wide range of services, including analytics, computing, content delivery, databases, generative AI (GenAI), machine learning (ML), networking, and storage.
To support the increasing adoption of cloud technology in the Asia Pacific, Amazon is investing in digital skills development through initiatives like AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Skill Builder.
Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the New Zealand government, AWS has committed to training 100,000 individuals in cloud skills, with more than 50,000 already trained. AWS will also hire and develop additional local staff to operate and support the new region, further demonstrating its commitment to New Zealand’s digital transformation and economic growth.