Amazon Web Services officially released its initial cloud infrastructure area in New Zealand with three Availability Zones, the sixteenth region of the company in the Asia Pacific region, and will benefit both the local businesses in storing their data in the country, as well as serve customers with lower latency, and initiate the process of digital transformation in the country.
Large investment favors the local economy
According to Business Wire, Amazon announced the introduction of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The new AWS Region will provide developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises with an additional option of running their applications and providing services to end users accessing data centers that are based in New Zealand. Amazon, in its long-term promise, is set to allocate over NZ$7.5 billion in New Zealand.
Amazon predicts that the current operating presence of the new AWS Region in the country will contribute about NZ$10.8 billion to the gross domestic product (GDP) of New Zealand, and contribute to the creation of an average of over 1,000 full-time equivalent jobs, such as facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, among others, in outside businesses every year. At launch, the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region has three Availability Zones, providing AWS with 120 Availability Zones in 38 AWS Regions worldwide.
The availability zones are three in number to guarantee the reliability
According to AWS, the first infrastructure Region in New Zealand and the sixteenth Region in Asia Pacific is the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Through this introduction, AWS now includes 120 Availability Zones across 38 geographic Regions globally, and the 10 additional Availability Zones and three additional AWS Regions announced to be introduced in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chile, and the European Sovereign Cloud.
AWS Regions incur Availability Zones, which establish infrastructure in different and distinct geographic locations. The Availability Zones are situated at a sufficient distance to assist in ensuring business continuity of the customers, but not excessively distant so as to require long latency to maintain high availability applications that utilize two or more Availability Zones. Independent power, cooling, and physical security are provided to each Availability Zone, and redundant ultra-low-latency networks are provided to connect them.
New region runs on renewable energy
According to Prasad Kalyanaraman, the vice president of Infrastructure Services in AWS, the new AWS Region in New Zealand will help meet the rising demand for cloud-based services in the country and enable organizations to leverage cloud services, big and small, to accelerate their digitalization. Businesses can now use enhanced technologies of AWS, including fundamental cloud services and artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as addressing the needs of local data residency, with this launch. The Turitea South wind farm will boost the renewable energy of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region on the first day, and was greatly supported by a long-term venture with Mercury NZ.
Good customer adoption is anticipated
New Zealand companies that use AWS to execute workloads are AMP New Zealand, AsureQuality, Contact Energy, Education Perfect, Foodstuffs South Island, Halter, Kiwibank, MATTR, Mercury NZ, Les Mills, Ministry of Transport, Mitre 10 New Zealand, New Zealand Post, One New Zealand, Sharesies, Steel and Tube Holdings, Toit atu Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand, TradeMe, TVNZ, University of Auckland, and Vector among others.
The AWS New Zealand Region launch is an important move towards the development of the digital infrastructure of the country, creating the possibility to offer local organizations cloud solutions of superior quality and, at the same time, retain the rights to data sovereignty. The fact that Amazon has made a significant investment proves that it believes in the technology industry of New Zealand, and the country will become a regional center of cloud innovation.