The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region consists of three Availability Zones and provides an in-country infrastructure for customers to meet data residency and regulatory requirements.
The tech giant planned to invest A$6.8 billion in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region between 2022 and 2037, which is estimated to support an annual average of more than 2,500 full-time equivalent jobs at outside companies and add 15 A$900 million to Australian gross income. national product by 2037
AWS says that services available in the Melbourne region include “compute, storage, networking, business applications, developer tools, data analytics, security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
It is also committed to driving economic development in Victoria and Australia by investing in infrastructure, jobs and education in local communities.
AWS has invested over A$8 billion in infrastructure and jobs in Australia since the 2012 launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, further committing to continued investment in local infrastructure to drive rapid customer innovation.
Before the launch of the new Melbourne Zone, there were a total of 29 local zones around the world: 17 in the US, 2 in LATAM (Buenos Aires and Santiago), 4 in Asia (Bangkok, Delhi, Kolkata and Taipei ), 5 in EMEA (Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki, Muscat and Warsaw) and 1 in Australia (Perth)
The Perth local area was announced earlier this month.
