To be called AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, the new data centres will be opened in late 2023 or early 2024

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The Amazon company will add a second infrastructure region in Canada. (Credit: faismeen/Wikimedia Commons)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed plans to open its second infrastructure region in Canada, which will be located in Calgary, Alberta.

Dubbed as AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, the new data centres will be opened either in late 2023 or early 2024. It will consist of three availability zones (AZs) at launch.

AWS’ first infrastructure region in Canada is located in Montreal and is called AWS Canada (Central) Region. It also has three availability zones.

According to the Amazon company, availability zones place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic areas. Their location is far enough from each other to support the business continuity of customers and yet near enough to offer low latency for high availability applications that use various availability zones.

Each of the availability zones has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is said to be connected via redundant, ultra-low latency networks.

The AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region is expected to allow customers who have data residency preferences to store data securely in Canada. Apart from that, the new data centres will give them much lower latency across Canada and increased flexibility to run applications across various regions, said AWS.

The upcoming infrastructure region is also expected to let even more developers, enterprises, start-ups, education, government, and nonprofit organisations run their applications and cater to end users from data centres located in Canada.

AWS infrastructure services vice president Prasad Kalyanaraman said: “Our infrastructure in Canada has allowed customers to transform the way businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies serve their stakeholders.

“With another AWS Region in Canada, customers will see even lower latency for emerging solutions like 5G-enabled applications and machine learning at the edge, and it will strengthen their ability to architect their regional infrastructure for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability.

“We are excited to build world-class infrastructure to help organisations reinvent how they deliver customer solutions and fuel economic growth.”

AWS estimates to inject more than $17bn in Canada by 2037 towards the construction and operation of its two infrastructure regions.

Around the world, the company has 81 availability zones spread over 25 geographic regions, and has plans to open an additional 27.

In September 2021, the company said that it will open data centres in New Zealand in 2024 by setting up the AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region.