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Amazon Web Services AWS an Amazon.com Inc. company NASDAQ AMZN announced plans to open an infrastructure region in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024. The new AWS Asia Pacific Auckland Region will consist of three 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. Globally AWS has announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia India Indonesia Israel Spain Switzerland the United Arab Emirates and the new AWS Region in New Zealand. The new AWS Asia Pacific Auckland Region will enable even more developers startups and enterprises as well as government education and nonprofit organizations to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in New Zealand ensuring that customers who want to keep their data in New Zealand are able to do so. AWS also released an economic impact study EIS that estimates it will create 1000 new jobs through investment of NZ7.5 billion US5.3 billion in the new AWS Asia Pacific Auckland Region with an estimated economic impact on New Zealands GDP of NZ10.8 billion US7.7 billion over the next 15 years. For more information visit aws.amazon.comabout-awsglobal-infrastructure.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 Vice President of Infrastructure Services AWS. Our investments reflect AWSs 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 Availability 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. The AWS Asia Pacific Auckland Region will enable local customers with data residency preferences to securely store data in Aotearoa while providing even lower latency across the country.Customers from startups to enterprises to government organizations and nonprofits will be able to use advanced technologies from the worlds leading cloud to drive innovation. AWS offers the broadest and deepest portfolio of services including analytics compute database Internet of Things IoT machine learning mobile services storage and more. Customers in New Zealand already benefit from Amazons ongoing investment in its global backbone through the Hawaiki Submarine Cable a 9300 mile 15000 kilometer transpacific cable system in operation since 2018 that provides a low-latency and high-bandwidth connection from Australia to New Zealand and the United States.According to the newly released EIS AWS plans to invest NZ7.5 billion US5.3 billion in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the new AWS Asia Pacific Auckland Region which includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centers operational expenses such as ongoing utilities and facility costs and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses. The EIS estimates that spending on construction and operation of AWS infrastructure in New Zealand is expected to increase New Zealands GDP by approximately NZ10.8 billion US7.7 billion over the next 15 years. The EIS also establishes that the new AWS Region should bring direct and indirect economic benefits like new employment and sales for the data center supply chain and related sectors. In total an estimated 1000 new full-time equivalent FTE jobs will be created in New Zealand from this investment.Customers and AWS Partners welcome the news of the AWS Asia Pacific Auckland RegionCustomers in New Zealand will continue to join the millions of active customers using AWS every month in over 190 countries around the world. New Zealand organizations choose AWS to run their workloads to drive cost savings accelerate innovation and speed time to market including Air NZ ANZ Bank Bank of New Zealand BNZ Contact Energy Education Perfect Halter New Zealand Department of Conservation Lancom New Zealand Ministry of Health New Zealand Ministry of Justice Orion Health Sharsies The Clinician TVNZ UneeQ University of Auckland Vodafone Xero and many more.ANZ is New Zealands largest bank holding a banking relationship with nearly one in two New Zealanders and employing approximately 8000 people. Its fantastic to see AWS investing and developing their capabilities in New Zealand said Michael Bullock CIO of ANZ New Zealand and Pacific. Our tech sector is world class and this sort of investment is a great step toward providing New Zealand with greater technical resilience and opportunities for innovation. This investment demonstrates AWSs continuing commitment to its customers and to the New Zealand economy as a whole while providing access to world-class cloud computing infrastructure that will meet our customers data sovereignty preferences and desire for innovation.
