AWS indicates that with the launch of the new region, developers, startups, entrepreneurs and enterprises, as well as government, educational and non-profit organizations, will have greater choice to run their applications and serve end users from AWS data centers located in Australia.
AWS also announced plans to invest approximately US$4.5 billion (approximately A$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037 through the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.
“Australia has a long history of technical innovation, and the launch of a second AWS Region in Australia provides even greater resiliency and enables more customers to build cloud-based applications that help fuel development. economy across the country,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS.
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“The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region adds to the continued expansion and investment of our infrastructure in Australia since we launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in 2012. We are proud to deepen our investment by driving local job creation, building cloud skills, and creating opportunities for growth and collaboration with our local customers and AWS partners.
“We know how important access to secure cloud infrastructure is for Victorian businesses, and providing more choice will boost the economy, support innovation and help create new jobs locally,” said Tim Pallas, Victorian Minister for Trade and Investment.
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, AWS says it now has 99 Availability Zones in 31 Geographic Regions, with announced plans to launch 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Canada. in Israel, New Zealand and Thailand. .
AWS Regions are made up of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region consists of three Availability Zones and joins the existing AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, which opened in November 2012.
“Availability Zones are located far enough apart to ensure customer business continuity and close enough to provide low latency for high-availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones – and each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through ultra-low latency redundant networks,” AWS explained.
AWS says its high availability-focused customers can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance.
“The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region will allow local customers with data residency preferences to securely store data in Australia while providing customers with even lower latency to drive greater productivity, more efficient business operations and improved real-time application performance. . Customers will also have access to advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation including compute, storage, networking, business applications, developer tools, data analytics, security, learning automation and artificial intelligence,” notes AWS.
“Operational resilience is at the heart of our commitment to our customers and our regulatory imperatives, which is why it is a top strategic priority at PEXA,” said Eglantine Etiemble, Chief Technology Officer at PEXA Group. “The launch of a second AWS Region in Australia allows us to securely deploy applications across multiple regions to improve the availability and performance of our PEXA platform and continue to help more than 20,000 families per week install faster.
AWS also released an economic impact study estimating that the company’s planned spending on building and operating the new region will support more than 2,500 full-time jobs at outside companies each year, with planned investment $4.5 billion (approximately AU$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037.
Investment includes capital expenditures for the construction of data centers, operating expenditures related to ongoing utility and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses.
“These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications and other jobs within the broader economy of the country, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Australia. The construction and operation of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region is also expected to add approximately $10.6 billion (approximately A$15.9 billion) to Australia’s GDP by 2037,” said AWS.
According to AWS, customers welcome the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region and “hundreds of thousands of organizations in Australia are among the millions of active customers using AWS in more than 190 countries around the world.”
“Australian companies choose AWS to innovate and help accelerate time to market. Customers using AWS include Airtasker, Animal Logic, ANZ Bank, Atlassian, Canva, Cochlear, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Jim’s Group, Kmart, Lion, Lovisa, National Australia Bank, Optus, PEXA Group, Pizza Hut, Smiling Mind, Swimming Australia , Target, Telstra, Ticketek, Woodside Energy and Youfoodz. Australian public sector customers use AWS to reduce costs and better serve local citizens,” AWS commented.
“These customers include FrontierSI, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), University of Melbourne and Victorian Land Registry Services. Australian startups including Brighte, FloodMapp, FrankieOne, Illuvium, Law On Earth, Littlepay, Mr Yum, Omniscient Neurotechnology (o8t), Reejig and Swoop Aero are growing their businesses with the use of AWS to rapidly scale national and global.”
“We plan to deploy our AWS-targeted workloads and applications in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region from day one and aim to make this our primary long-term AWS site,” said Gerard Florian, Technology Group Director at ANZ. “The lower latency and higher performance we expect from the new AWS Region in Melbourne will help us improve our customer experience and accelerate our cloud adoption.
“Littlepay is a Melbourne-based financial technology company that works with over 250 transport and mobility providers to enable contactless payments on local buses, city networks and national public transport systems,” says AWS.
“Our mission is to create a universal payment experience around the world, which requires a world-class global infrastructure that can grow with us,” said Amin Shayan, CEO of Littlepay.
“To provide a seamless experience for our customers, we ingest and process more than one million monthly transactions in real time using AWS, which allows us to generate insights that help us improve our services. We’re excited about the launch of a second AWS Region in Australia, as it gives us access to advanced technologies, like machine learning and artificial intelligence, with lower latency to help make commuting easier. simpler and more pleasant.
“Launching an AWS Region in Melbourne gives us the added capability to help researchers, students and scholars deliver world-class research results that benefit society,” said Professor Calum Drummond, Vice -Deputy Chancellor of Research and Innovation and Vice President of RMIT.
“We recently launched RMIT University’s AWS Cloud Supercomputing facility, known as RACE. RMIT researchers use RACE to advance battery technologies, photonics and geospatial science. The low latency and high throughput of the AWS Region in Melbourne, combined with our high-bandwidth private fiber optic network, will allow researchers and students to innovate beyond the limitations of traditional on-premises data centers.
AWS says its Australian partners also host the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.
“The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) worldwide. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing sales, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS ISVs, ISs, and Consulting Partners help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customer cloud environments. Examples of Australian-based AWS partners include Cevo, CMD Solutions, DiUS, IntelligenceBank, Local Measure, NCS, Stax, Unleash live, Urban.io, and Versent. For the full list of AWS Partners, visit aws.amazon.com/partners,” AWS notes.
Cevo is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that provides cloud services such as migration, data analytics and managed services to Australian companies such as David Jones, Insignia Financial, MYOB and Jim’s Group.
“Working with AWS has allowed us to grow our team of more than 60 consultants over the past 12 months to meet growing customer demand for deploying highly regulated cloud environments,” said James Lewis, CEO of Cevo. .
“As cloud adoption continues to expand, we are seeing more and more customers, particularly in the financial, government and retail sectors, migrating to the cloud to leverage the advanced capabilities of modernization and to imagine, design, and build new customer-centric services Together with the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, we can enable customers to conduct more experimentation at scale, while ensuring that their data is securely stored in Australia.