Dubbed AWS Mexico (Central) Region, the new cloud region will allow start-ups, developers, and enterprises, along with the government, education, and non-profit organisations to run their applications and provide end-user services from AWS data centres located in Mexico
Amazon Web Services to open new cloud infrastructure region in Mexico by early 2025. (Credit: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States/Wikimedia Commons)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to launch an infrastructure region in Mexico by early 2025 and make an investment of over $5bn in the Latin American country over 15 years.
Dubbed AWS Mexico (Central) Region, the new cloud infrastructure region will comprise three availability zones at launch.
The new region will allow start-ups, developers, and enterprises, along with the government, education, and non-profit organisations to run their applications and provide end-user services from AWS data centres located in Mexico.
Mexican Secretary of Economy Raquel Buenrostro said: “Cloud services are an essential part of everyday life, helping us to digitally and economically transform Mexico.
“We welcome AWS’s investment and expansion in Mexico because it is a sign of trust and demonstrates conditions are right to support the nearshoring trend across many sectors of our economy.”
Besides, AWS Mexico (Central) Region will enable customers with data residency preferences or requirements to store their content securely in the country.
It will help customers to achieve lower latency and serve the demand for cloud services across Latin America.
Furthermore, AWS will hire and train additional local personnel to operate and support the new AWS Region in Mexico as part of its continued commitment to contribute to the development of digital skills.
AWS infrastructure services vice president Prasad Kalyanaraman said: “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.
“We look forward to helping customers in Mexico meet data residency preferences and deliver cloud-based applications with low latency, accelerating the country’s digital transformation, and fuelling economic growth.”
Overall, AWS plans to launch 15 more availability zones and five more AWS regions in Malaysia, New Zealand, Mexico, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
The availability zones place infrastructure in distinct and separate geographic locations, far enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity.
However, it will be placed close enough to offer low latency for high availability applications that use multiple availability zones.
Last month, AWS revealed its plans to invest approximately JPY2.26 trillion in Japan over the five years through 2027 to expand cloud computing infrastructure in the country.