New AWS Region will allow customers to run
workloads and securely store data in New Zealand while serving end
users with even lower latency
Newly released AWS economic impact study
estimates that the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region will
create 1,000 new jobs in New Zealand over the next 15 years through
investment of NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion)
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced plans to open an infrastructure region in
Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland)
Region will consist of three Availability Zones (AZs) and join the
existing 81 Availability Zones across 25 geographic AWS Regions at
launch. The Region will be owned and operated by a local AWS entity
in New Zealand. Globally, AWS has announced plans for 24 more
Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India,
Indonesia, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates,
and the new AWS Region in New Zealand. The new AWS Asia Pacific
(Auckland) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and
enterprises as well as government, education, and nonprofit
organizations to run their applications and serve end users from
data centers located in New Zealand, ensuring that customers who
want to keep their data in New Zealand are able to do so. AWS also
released an economic impact study (EIS) that estimates it will
create 1,000 new jobs through investment of NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3
billion) in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region with an
estimated economic impact on New Zealand’s GDP of NZ$10.8 billion
(US$7.7 billion) over the next 15 years. For more information,
visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.
“AWS supports thousands of organizations across New Zealand in
their drive to innovate, succeed, and grow globally. AWS Cloud
technology is providing new ways for government to further engage
with citizens, for enterprises to innovate for their next phase of
growth, and for entrepreneurs to build businesses and compete on a
global scale,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of
Infrastructure Services, AWS. “Our investments reflect AWS’s deep
and long-term commitment to New Zealand. We are excited to build
new world-class infrastructure locally, train New Zealanders with
in-demand digital skills, and continue to help local organizations
deliver applications that accelerate digital transformation and
fuel economic growth.”
AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which place
infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with
enough distance to help support customers’ business continuity, yet
near enough 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 through redundant, ultra-low latency
networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design
their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve
even greater fault tolerance. The AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland)
Region will enable local customers with data residency preferences
to securely store data in Aotearoa, while providing even lower
latency across the country.
Customers from startups to enterprises to government
organizations and nonprofits will be able to use advanced
technologies from the world’s leading cloud to drive innovation.
AWS offers the broadest and deepest portfolio of services including
analytics, compute, database, Internet of Things (IoT), machine
learning, mobile services, storage, and more. Customers in New
Zealand already benefit from Amazon’s ongoing investment in its
global backbone through the Hawaiki Submarine Cable, a 9,300 mile
(15,000 kilometer) transpacific cable system in operation since
2018 that provides a low-latency and high-bandwidth connection from
Australia to New Zealand and the United States.
According to the newly released EIS, AWS plans to invest NZ$7.5
billion (US$5.3 billion) in New Zealand over the next 15 years
through the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region, which includes
capital expenditures on the construction of data centers,
operational expenses such as ongoing utilities and facility costs,
and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses. The
EIS estimates that spending on construction and operation of AWS
infrastructure in New Zealand is expected to increase New Zealand’s
GDP by approximately NZ$10.8 billion (US$7.7 billion) over the next
15 years. The EIS also establishes that the new AWS Region should
bring direct and indirect economic benefits like new employment and
sales for the data center supply chain and related sectors. In
total, an estimated 1,000 new full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs will
be created in New Zealand from this investment.
Customers and AWS Partners welcome the news of the AWS Asia
Pacific (Auckland) Region
Customers in New Zealand will continue to join the millions of
active customers using AWS every month in over 190 countries around
the world. New Zealand organizations choose AWS to run their
workloads to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed
time to market, including Air NZ, ANZ Bank, Bank of New Zealand
(BNZ), Contact Energy, Education Perfect, Halter, New Zealand
Department of Conservation, Lancom, New Zealand Ministry of Health,
New Zealand Ministry of Justice, Orion Health, Sharsies, The
Clinician, TVNZ, UneeQ, University of Auckland, Vodafone, Xero, and
many more.
ANZ is New Zealand’s largest bank, holding a banking
relationship with nearly one in two New Zealanders and employing
approximately 8,000 people. “It’s fantastic to see AWS investing
and developing their capabilities in New Zealand,” said Michael
Bullock, CIO of ANZ New Zealand and Pacific. “Our tech sector is
world class, and this sort of investment is a great step toward
providing New Zealand with greater technical resilience and
opportunities for innovation. This investment demonstrates AWS’s
continuing commitment to its customers and to the New Zealand
economy as a whole while providing access to world-class cloud
computing infrastructure that will meet our customers’ data
sovereignty preferences and desire for innovation.”
Air New Zealand is New Zealand’s national carrier with a global
network of passenger and cargo services, flying more than 17
million passengers every year and 3,400 flights per week before the
pandemic. “Air New Zealand strives to connect New Zealanders to
each other and New Zealand to the world, and we aim to be the
world’s leading digital airline by providing a seamless digital
experience from the moment customers start planning their trip
until after they return home,” said Greg Foran, CEO of Air New
Zealand. “We have been using a wide range of AWS services since
2016 to differentiate the airline globally, grow, and evolve our
business. These include storage, compute, databases, and
application development to run more than 70 of the airline’s
digital services applications. We have collaborated with AWS on
many innovations to embed digital at the heart of everything we do,
including building a secure digital booking system that easily
scales to meet fluctuating demand. Looking ahead, we need strong,
resilient cloud architecture to provide customers a more
personalized and innovative digital experience. The new AWS
infrastructure will help us deliver on our vision, provide
customers even faster access to all our services, and underpin our
delivery of a best-in-class digital experience to Kiwis for many
years to come.”
Te Tāhū o te Ture Ministry of Justice works to help make sure
New Zealand is a safe and just society. “As an essential service,
the courts have continued to work throughout the various COVID
lockdowns, and the constraints of what is still a largely
paper-based system have put into sharp focus the importance of
technology to enable the remote delivery of services to ensure
ongoing access to justice. Investment in new technology would make
it easier for citizens to access and engage with the courts and
tribunals, while at the same time ensuring the Ministry can
maximize the use of all our resources since court-related data must
be hosted within New Zealand in line with judicial policy,” said
Tina Wakefield, Deputy Secretary Corporate and Digital Services at
Ministry of Justice. “By investing in a Region in New Zealand, AWS
is opening up fresh possibilities for public service agencies like
ours by offering a new cloud computing option aligned with our
preferences for on-shore data hosting. Using locally hosted
technologies, we can further align with the New Zealand
government’s cloud-first strategy and progress toward new ways of
working that improve the experience of justice services for court
participants, with the aim of improving access to justice for all
New Zealanders.”
Education Perfect is a digital platform that provides
curriculum-aligned lessons for blended learning in the classroom,
and for home schooling and tutoring, for school years 5–12. “At
Education Perfect, we aim to humanize technology for lifelong
learners by helping educators use data to save time, inform
decision making, create personalized learning experiences and
pathways for students, and improve student outcomes,” said Alex
Burke, CEO of Education Perfect. “As a cloud-native business,
Education Perfect has been all-in on AWS from day one, leveraging a
multitude of secure and resilient services including advanced data
management and machine learning tools. AWS has helped us scale and
grow into more than 60 countries, which enabled us to be a
borderless organization providing access to our tools anytime,
anywhere in the world. During the COVID-19 pandemic, AWS helped us
scale our service to manage a 300% increase in traffic to our
platform. An AWS Region in New Zealand will provide greater
availability, speed, and reliability, which means faster and more
seamless access to our platform. As a born-and-bred Kiwi business,
having our technology partners make significant local investments
helps us build trust with government and education stakeholders,
knowing that we’re collaborating with an organization that values
security, economic success, and the digital transformation of our
country.”
Halter, a New Zealand agri-tech startup, built its business on
AWS from its beginning in 2016 and worked with the AWS Activate
program, which provides early stage startups with cloud computing
credits, business mentorship, and technical support to launch and
build new businesses. Halter makes solar-powered smart collars for
dairy cows that pair with an app that allows users to remotely
manage cows’ health, feed, and behavior. “Farming is a 24/7
operation where things happen every hour of the day. We built on
AWS because it’s easily accessible for Kiwi businesses and for its
rock-solid, cutting-edge cloud technology that matches our
customers' need for uninterrupted service,” said Craig Piggott,
CEO, Halter. “Halter was born on AWS, which allowed us to focus our
engineering talent on our core business instead of infrastructure
management. Beyond the technology, AWS supports our team’s growth
with access to startup communities and valuable domain expertise in
areas like agri-tech.”
The Clinician is a digital health company with a cloud-native
health platform, ZEDOC, that automates collection and analysis of
healthcare data and delivers multimedia educational materials to
patients. Medical staff use the real-time data, such as eConsent,
history, patient measures, and blood pressure and oxygen levels, to
quickly flag symptoms such as depression from hypertension or an
intolerance to medication. “ZEDOC uses AWS’s analytics and machine
learning services to intelligently analyze hundreds of thousands of
patient interactions every month, providing critical new insights
for enhancing remote patient engagement and ensuring equitable
access for all communities,” said Tamaryn Hankinson, co-founder of
The Clinician. “AWS has enabled us to easily scale for public
sector deployments in places like Singapore with strict health data
privacy standards. An AWS Region in New Zealand will enable the
expansion of our digital health services across the private and
public health sector locally, ensuring we respect the data
sovereignty needs of all communities.”
New Zealand-based partners are part of the AWS Partner Network
(APN) which includes tens of thousands of independent software
vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS
Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the
APN provides business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market
support. APN SIs, consulting partners, and ISVs 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 customers’ environments on AWS.
Examples of AWS New Zealand Partners include Consegna, Datacom,
Deloitte, Spark, and many others. AWS ISVs in New Zealand including
Ambit, Aportio, Inteso, Orion Health, Raygun, Soul Machines, UneeQ,
Xero, and others are already using AWS to deliver their software to
customers around the world and plan to serve their New Zealand
customers from the AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region at launch.
For the full list of APN members, visit
aws.amazon.com/partners.
Datacom, one of the region’s largest homegrown technology
companies, is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner. “Datacom has been
collaborating with AWS since 2015, leveraging the AWS Cloud to
strengthen our customers’ reliability and scalability without
compromising security and compliance,” said Justin Gray, Managing
Director for Datacom. “We help a range of large government agency
and mid-market and enterprise customers to transform their
organization’s systems, improving their performance and increasing
efficiencies and security. AWS's significant investment in New
Zealand accelerates our country's innovation ecosystem and
digitization efforts and will provide organizations across New
Zealand with more choice and faster access to world-class cloud
computing services.”
Consegna is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner based out of New
Zealand that helps customers move on-premises workloads to the
cloud. “Like AWS, Consegna takes pride in being customer-obsessed,
and we have worked closely with AWS to help our customers
accelerate their digital transformation since our inception in
2016. Consegna recently migrated 500 virtual servers across 14
lines of business within nine weeks for Quotable Value, saving 50%
on their current infrastructure costs,” said John Taylor, CEO for
Consegna. “Leveraging the AWS global infrastructure has enabled us
to assist customers in Australia and New Zealand, and it’s helped
us drive mass migrations as far afield as California in the U.S. by
replicating our delivery methodologies and frameworks across
Availability Zones and AWS Regions that are consistently global.
Having an AWS Region in New Zealand marks how important our country
has become in the global IT stage.”
Spark is New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital
services company providing services to a wide range of leading New
Zealand organizations through the Spark Business Group – which
unites Spark’s services with its specialist businesses CCL, Leaven,
Qrious and Digital Island. “We have worked with AWS for the past
five years, leveraging AWS’s extensive portfolio of cloud services
across our business to support our digital transformation and to
extend our hybrid cloud offerings to our customers, helping them to
digitally transform and grow,” said Jolie Hodson, CEO, Spark.
“AWS’s continuous focus on innovation and investment in critical
infrastructure is an important enabler of the support we provide to
New Zealand businesses as they modernize and innovate using
advanced cloud capabilities like machine learning and the Internet
of Things.”
AWS’s Continued Investment in New Zealand
The upcoming AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region expands on AWS’s
ongoing investment in New Zealand since setting up the first local
AWS entity (AWS New Zealand) in Auckland in 2014. AWS has also
launched two Amazon CloudFront edge locations and AWS Outposts in
Auckland. Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure and programmable
content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of
data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low
latency and high transfer speeds. AWS Outposts is a fully managed
service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services,
APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, colocation space, or
on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. This
year, AWS expanded its presence further, opening new offices for
AWS New Zealand in Auckland and Wellington to support a growing
team of more than 100 employees, including solutions architects,
account managers, sales representatives, professional services
consultants, and experts to help customers migrate workloads to the
cloud.
AWS continues to invest in the upskilling of local developers,
students, and the next generation of IT leaders in New Zealand
through programs like AWS re/Start, AWS Academy, and AWS Educate.
These AWS Education Programs help learners of all backgrounds and
experiences prepare for careers in the cloud. From college courses
through to full-time training programs and self-paced learning
content, AWS Education Programs offer access to the skills to begin
a cloud career. AWS also collaborates with educational providers
like Code Avengers to provide community code camps for
underrepresented youth communities, and with diversity, equity, and
inclusion consultancies like The Dream Collective to deliver
programs like SheDares to educate young people about opportunities
for future careers in technology.
To continue fostering entrepreneurship in New Zealand, AWS
offers startups and small businesses support through the AWS
Activate program. This provides access to guidance and one-on-one
time with AWS experts and web-based training, self-paced labs,
customer support, third-party offers, and up to $100,000 in AWS
service credits—all at no charge. AWS also works with the venture
capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help
startups grow in the cloud. In New Zealand, this includes
accelerator organizations such as Startmate, Icehouse Flux,
CreativeHQ, and Kõkiri to support the rapid growth of their
portfolio companies.
Amazon is committed to running its business in an
environmentally friendly way and has committed to reach net zero
carbon across all business operations by 2040, 10 years ahead of
the Paris Agreement goals, as part of The Climate Pledge. A key
component of this commitment is powering Amazon’s global
infrastructure with 100% renewable energy, and the company is now
on a path to achieve this milestone by 2025, five years ahead of
the initial 2030 target. Amazon also became the world’s largest
corporate purchaser of renewable energy in 2020, reaching 65%
renewable energy across its business. A recent Asia-Pacific (APAC)
report by 451 Research found that on average, organizations moving
their business applications from on-premises data centers to cloud
infrastructure in APAC can expect to reduce their energy use—and
associated carbon footprint—by 78%. Organizations that move compute
workloads to the AWS Cloud can benefit from the net effect of
Amazon’s sustainability efforts to reduce their carbon
footprint.
About Amazon Web Services
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customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest
enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power
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