Amazon Web Services (AWS), a company of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), has announced its plans to launch a new infrastructure region in Mexico in early 2025. The AWS Mexico (Central) region will allow developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and businesses, as well as government, educational, and non-profit organizations, to securely run workloads and store their content in Mexico, benefiting end users with even lower latency.
This new region reflects AWS’s long-term commitment to Latin America, where the demand for cloud services has shown significant growth. AWS plans to invest more than $5 billion dollars (approximately $85 billion Mexican pesos) in Mexico over the next 15 years. This investment in the Mexico Region is part of AWS’s ongoing investments in the country to provide customers with advanced and secure cloud technologies.
“Cloud services are an essential part of our daily lives, helping us transform Mexico digitally and economically,” said Raquel Buenrostro, Mexico’s Secretary of Economy. “We appreciate AWS’s investment and expansion in Mexico, as it is a sign of confidence and shows that there are the right conditions to support the trend of nearshoring in many sectors of our economy.”
The AWS Mexico (Central) region will feature three Availability Zones at the time of its launch, adding to AWS’s existing 105 Availability Zones in 33 geographic regions worldwide. With this announcement, AWS plans to launch 15 additional Availability Zones and five new AWS regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS, commented, “Our investment in Mexico reflects AWS’s long-term commitment to our customers so they can leverage advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. We look forward to helping customers in Mexico meet their data residency preferences and deliver cloud-based applications with low latency, accelerating the country’s digital transformation and fostering economic growth.”
In addition to strengthening cloud infrastructure in Mexico, AWS continues to invest in training students, local developers, technical professionals, non-technical professionals, and the next generation of IT leaders in Mexico through programs like AWS re/Start, AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Skill Builder. Since 2017, AWS has trained over two million people in Latin America in cloud skills, including 400,000 people in Mexico.
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This announcement marks a significant milestone in the expansion of AWS infrastructure in Mexico and underscores the crucial role that cloud services play in driving innovation and economic growth in the region.