The AWS Mexico (Central) Region provides customers with more ways to handle workloads and securely store data in Mexico – while providing end users with even lower latency.
AWS has launched the Mexico (Central) AWS Region offering developers, startups, entrepreneurs and enterprises – as well as government, educational, and nonprofit organizations – more choice to run their applications and serve end users from AWS data centers in Mexico.
As part of its long-term commitment, AWS plans to invest more than $5 billion in Mexico over 15 years.
AWS has also launched a $300,000 AWS InCommunities Fund in Querétaro to help local groups, schools and organizations initiate new community projects.
AWS estimates that the construction and ongoing operations of the new AWS Region will increase Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) by approximately $10 billion and create an average of more than 7,000 full-time positions in external companies annually. These jobs, including in construction, plant maintenance, engineering, and telecommunications, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Mexico.
“This launch is a significant step in our journey to continue to expand our infrastructure and bring global innovations in machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and other advanced technologies to our customers,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services, AWS.
“With access to secure and reliable infrastructure and a wide range of AWS technologies, this new AWS Region will help organizations across Mexico be at the center of AI and ML innovation.”
Marcelo Ebrard, Mexican Minister of Economy, said: “AWS’s investment of more than $5 billion will both strengthen Mexico’s technological infrastructure and open up new opportunities for innovation, economic growth, digital inclusion and job creation.”
With the Mexico (Central) AWS Region, AWS has 114 Availability Zones in 36 geographic regions.
AWS Regions are made up of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. The AWS Mexico (Central) Region consists of three Availability Zones that are far enough apart to ensure customer business continuity, but close enough to each other 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 via redundant networks with ultra-low latency. AWS customers who rely on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple availability zones for even higher fault tolerance.
The AWS Mexico (Central) Region enables customers with data residency preferences to securely store their content in Mexico, achieve even lower latency and meet the demand for cloud services across Latin America.
