Cloud pioneer expands global infrastructure
footprint with new AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal,
Quebec, enabling customers to run applications and store data in
Canada
With tens of thousands of active AWS Customers
operating in Canada, those welcoming the new AWS Region include
National Bank of Canada, Salesforce, Lululemon Athletica,
Desire2Learn, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), British Columbia
Hydro, TMX Group, the University of Alberta, Shaw Communications,
and Kik Interactive
(NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com
company, today announced the launch of the AWS Canada
(Central) Region. With this launch, AWS now provides 40
Availability Zones across 15 technology infrastructure regions
globally, with another seven Availability Zones and three regions
in the UK, France, and China expected to come online in the coming
months. Tens of thousands of Canadian customers are using other AWS
Regions and starting today, developers, start-ups, and enterprises,
as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can
leverage the AWS Cloud to run their applications and store their
data on infrastructure in Canada. Developers can sign-up and
get started today at: http://aws.amazon.com.
The AWS Canada (Central) Region offers two Availability Zones at
launch. AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which
refer to technology infrastructure in separate and distinct
geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce
the risk of a single event impacting availability, yet near enough
for business continuity applications that require rapid failover.
Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, physical
security, and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency
networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can architect
their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve
even higher fault-tolerance. AWS also provides two Amazon
CloudFront edge locations in Toronto and Montreal for customers
looking to deliver websites, applications, and content
to Canadian end users with low latency. These locations are
part of AWS’s existing network of 68 edge sites across North
and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
The new AWS Canada (Central) Region continues the company’s
focus on delivering cloud technologies to customers in an
environmentally friendly way. AWS data centers in Canada will draw
from a regional electricity grid that is 99 percent powered by
hydropower. More information on AWS sustainability efforts can be
found at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability.
“For many years, we’ve had an enthusiastic base of customers in
Canada choosing the AWS Cloud because it has more functionality
than other cloud platforms, an extensive APN Partner and customer
ecosystem, as well as unmatched maturity, security, and
performance,” said Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS. “Our Canadian customers
and APN Partners asked us to build AWS infrastructure in Canada, so
they can run their mission-critical workloads and store sensitive
data on AWS infrastructure located in Canada. A local AWS Region
will serve as the foundation for new cloud initiatives in Canada
that can transform business, customer experiences, and enhance the
local economy.”
“The digital economy is now the economy itself. Virtually every
sector of the economy is propelled by digital technologies, which
are being enabled by cloud computing,” said Navdeep Singh Bains,
Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development in
Canada. “The rapidly growing demand for digital services is one
reason for the significant investment that Amazon Web Services is
making in Canada. On behalf of the Government of Canada, I
congratulate Amazon on the success of its cloud business and
welcome the expansion of Amazon Web Services in this country.”
“Significant projects like the one being realized by Amazon
Web Services represent the kind of large-scale investment that take
Quebec a long way toward its goals in the digital world. Indeed,
this initiative will stimulate the development of cloud computing
in Quebec, a key area that can be an engine for our province's
information technology and communication sector,” declared
Dominique Anglade, Minister of the Economy, Science, and Innovation
in Quebec, and Minister responsible for the Digital Strategy.
All AWS infrastructure regions around the world are designed,
built, and regularly audited to meet rigorous compliance standards
and provide high levels of security for all AWS customers. These
include ISO 27001, SOC 1 (Formerly SAS 70), SOC 2 and SOC 3
Security & Availability, PCI-DSS Level 1 and many more. With
AWS, customers are in control of their data and choose the AWS
Region(s) where they want their data stored. Data does not move
between AWS Regions unless the customer chooses to do so, and AWS
provides a variety of options – both from AWS and APN Partners –
enabling customers to encrypt their data in motion or at rest if
they desire. More information on how customers using AWS can meet
their security, data privacy, and compliance requirements can be
found at https://aws.amazon.com/security.
Customers and APN Partners Welcome the AWS Canada (Central)
Region
For more than a decade, AWS has changed the way organizations
acquire technology infrastructure. AWS customers are not required
to make any up-front financial or long-term commitments, paying on
demand for the IT resources they use rather than incurring large
capital expenses. This enables them to scale quickly by adding or
shedding resources at any time, accelerate their time to market
with innovative applications, and free up limited engineering
resources from the undifferentiated heavy lifting of running
backend infrastructure—often while significantly improving
operational performance, reliability, and security in the process.
This has led to more than two million1 active customers using the
AWS Cloud each month in over 190 countries around the world.
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM
company, will leverage AWS Cloud infrastructure for a new
Canada-based instance for its core services, starting in mid-2017.
“Partnering with AWS in Canada will enable us to continue to
deliver trusted solutions to our customers in the region with high
levels of reliability, performance, and security,” said Richard
Eyram, Area Vice President, Salesforce Canada.
National Bank of Canada, one of Canada’s leading financial
services organizations with over CAD$219 billion in assets, chose
the AWS Cloud to help it collect and process a fast-growing volume
of stock-market financial data. “The application we were using
wasn’t effective. We were only able to answer 10 percent of the
questions we wanted to answer. We also couldn’t process historical
data, which we needed to do in order to get more context. The speed
and performance of AWS is impressive and data manipulation
processes that once took days are now done in one minute,” said
Pascal Bergeron, Director of Algorithmic Trading for the bank’s
Global Equity Derivatives Group. “We have been able to better serve
our customers and have improved and optimized trading operations,
therefore generating more revenue for National Bank of Canada.”
Porter Airlines is an award-winning regional airline
headquartered in Toronto that provides flights to over 23
destinations in Canada and the United States. Porter needed the
ability to respond instantly to fluctuating load demands on their
public site with a scalable and low-cost solution. Porter needed
the ability to store large datasets, transform them, and make them
available to other applications and end users for analytics and
actions. Porter looked to AWS and services like Amazon Redshift to
provide the scalable highly available infrastructure required to
meet these goals. “Amazon solved a lot of our problems around
scale. Specifically, with our data, AWS answered the questions we
used to have to figure out ourselves – like how do we scale our
massive data store, how do we access it quickly, how do we keep it
secure – and they gave us the solution needed,” said Dan Donovan,
CIO for Porter Airlines. “So, we now have the time, freedom and
confidence to concentrate on how to make our passengers’
experiences better. Using AWS is one of the main ways we do this,
and now that AWS has opened a local region in Canada, we can move
even more of our systems to the AWS Cloud and put more focus on
enhancing passenger experience.”
Lululemon is a technical athletic apparel company that makes
technical athletic clothes for yoga, running, working out, and most
other sweaty pursuits. Based in Vancouver, they started out of a
yoga studio and quickly became a global retailer and community hub
for encouraging healthy lifestyles and habits. In order to rapidly
build and deploy their digital marketing properties for the 2016
holiday season, Lululemon leveraged AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda,
and AWS ElasticBeanstalk to streamline the management, deployment,
and continuous delivery of their application. “Leveraging AWS
allows us to spend more time focusing on what truly differentiates
us in the market, rather than on maintaining custom infrastructure
solutions,” said Sam Keen, Director of Product Architecture. “AWS
Services are highly performant and easily choreographed, allowing
us to measure deployments in minutes or even seconds. We see
competing cloud providers cloning AWS services but we remain with
AWS since they are far in the lead and continue to accelerate the
release of new services and regions, now with an AWS Region in
Canada, which only serves to continue to enhance the value of their
offerings.”
D2L (formerly Desire2Learn), a learning technology leader,
recently chose AWS as its strategic cloud infrastructure service
provider. “By leveraging built-in AWS Cloud services such as Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3),
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elasticsearch, and the suite of AWS
analytics and security services, D2L is accelerating our innovation
and global expansion in a cost-effective way to serve millions of
learners,” said Nick Oddson, CTO of D2L. “Serving our customers
from AWS locations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and now Canada,
learners everywhere can have an exceptional learning experience on
Brightspace, our award-winning LMS. With AWS’s reliability,
security, and availability, D2L will continue to provide our high
level of service and a global, end-to-end security approach, now on
one trusted infrastructure,” said Oddson.
Sequence Bio is a data-driven biotechnology company in
Newfoundland and Labrador. "Sequence Bio hopes to obtain
approval to embark on a 100,000 person genome sequencing project in
Newfoundland and Labrador that deals with sensitive genomic and
health information - having a new AWS Region allows us to build and
deploy our platform and keep data 100 percent in Canada," said Dan
Brake, Director of Technology Development, Sequence Bio.
Postmedia is one of the largest news media companies in Canada
with more than 200 brands across multiple print, online, and mobile
platforms. “As one of the earliest adopters of cloud computing in
Canada, we have utilized AWS for years – and it has delivered on
the promise of a powerful, cost-effective, flexible and innovative
cloud offering for us,” said Thomas Jankowski, EVP and Chief
Digital Officer, Postmedia. “We are excited that AWS is bringing
even more capabilities to market in Canada, just in time for our
B2B platform build out of the Postmedia Innovation Outpost at
Communitech (Waterloo, ON).”
Investing in Canada’s Cloud Future
The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of
independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs)
around the world, with APN Partner participation in Canada growing
significantly over the past 12 months. APN Partners build
innovative solutions and services on the AWS Cloud and the APN
helps by providing those partners with business, technical,
marketing, and go-to-market (GTM) support. APN SIs such as
Accenture, Deloitte, Scalar Decisions, TriNimbus, Slalom
Consulting, iTMethods, and Softchoice are helping enterprise and
public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical
applications on AWS, and provide a full range of monitoring,
automation, and management services for customers' AWS
environments. AWS ISVs in Canada including Salesforce.com, NuData
Security, Acquia, Silanis, OpenText, Splunk, Adobe, and NthGen
Software will be able to serve their Canadian customers from the
AWS Canada (Central) Region. Customers can easily find, trial,
deploy, and buy software solutions for the AWS Cloud on
the AWS Marketplace.
AWS offers a full range of training and certification programs
to help Canadian professionals who are interested in the latest
cloud computing technologies, best practices, and architectures,
advance their technical skills. Additionally, the AWS Educate
program promotes cloud learning in the classroom and has been
adopted by more than 500 institutions worldwide. The program helps
to provide an academic gateway for the next generation of IT
and cloud professionals. The AWS Activate program provides
Canadian-based startups with the resources they need to quickly get
started on AWS and scale their businesses. AWS has teamed with
accelerators, incubators, Seed/VC Funds, and startup-enabling
organizations such as FounderFuel, Real Ventures, the Business
Development Bank of Canada, iNovia Capital, OMERS Ventures, and
others that provide a range of services including training, AWS
credits, capital, in-person technical support, and other
benefits.
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analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise
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regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany,
Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and India. AWS services are
trusted by millions of active customers around the world monthly --
including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and
leading government agencies -- to power their infrastructure, make
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