Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped a huge $4 billion investment bomb. This funding will help build its infrastructure, as well as reinforce its services across Chile. This strategic move provides a strong foundation to better serve their new and expanding customers and prospects. Most importantly, it directly responds to the surging demand for cloud services in the region. The new AWS Region is set to go live with three availability zones. These zones are heavily populated by big, isolated data center farms that increase service reliability.
AWS has already promised to share more information about this massive investment in the coming days and weeks. This project is indicative of Amazon’s commitment to deepening its cloud infrastructure threats in Chile. The new announcement directly builds on their past investments in AWS services across the country.
Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS, emphasized the importance of the new region, stating, “The AWS South America (Chile) Region will help serve the fast-growing demand for cloud services across Latin America and in Chile with secure, reliable, and efficient cloud infrastructure.”
The newly established AWS Region is expected to empower organizations to leverage advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Kalyanaraman further noted, “With the new AWS Region, organizations will have the ability to build with advanced AWS technologies, like artificial intelligence and machine learning, to help accelerate growth, productivity, and innovation.”
AWS’s growth in Chile builds on its previous efforts in the country. In 2021, AWS rolled out AWS Outposts, taking its hypercloud on-premises to give its customers continued access to its cloud services even locally. Along with that, it opened up AWS Local Zones, which let you AWS services connect more easily to very-low-latency offerings. Earlier this year, AWS granted customers the ability to utilize private connectivity between their data centers or offices and AWS.
This announcement comes about two years after Google Cloud opened its first cloud region in Chile in 2021. If that sounds like a crazy competitive landscape for cloud services today, you could be right! AWS has been making big bets of its own to increase their share of the market. Simultaneously, it seeks to foster new innovation and improve productivity among the local organizations.
