Second AWS Region in Australia provides
customers with more options to run workloads with even greater
resilience and availability, securely store data in Australia, and
serve end users with even lower latency
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region is
estimated to support an average of more than 2,500 full-time jobs
annually through a planned investment of more than $4.5 billion
(approx. A$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037
Hundreds of thousands of customers, including
ANZ, Littlepay, and RMIT University, use local AWS infrastructure
to innovate
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), today announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure
Region in Australia—the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.
Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and
enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit
organizations, will have greater choice for running their
applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in
Australia. AWS is planning to invest an estimated $4.5 billion
(approx. A$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037 through the AWS Asia
Pacific (Melbourne) Region. For more information about AWS Global
Infrastructure, visit
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.
“Australia has a strong history of technical innovation, and the
launch of a second AWS Region in Australia provides even greater
resilience and enables more customers to develop cloud-based
applications that help fuel economic development across the
country,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of
Infrastructure Services at AWS. “The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
Region adds to our ongoing infrastructure expansion and investments
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
to Victorian businesses, and providing more choice will deliver a
boost to the economy, support innovation, and help to create new
jobs locally,” said Victorian Minister for Trade and Investment Tim
Pallas.
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, AWS
now has 99 Availability Zones across 31 geographic regions, with
announced plans to launch 12 more Availability Zones and four more
AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. AWS
Regions are composed 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 from each other to support customers’ business continuity
and 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 launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region will
enable local customers with data residency preferences to store
data securely in Australia while providing customers with even
lower latency to drive greater productivity, more efficient
business operations, and enhanced 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, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
AWS also released an economic impact study estimating that the
company’s projected spending on the construction and operation of
the new Region will support more than 2,500 full-time jobs at
external businesses annually, with a planned $4.5 billion (approx.
A$6.8 billion) investment in Australia by 2037. The investment
includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centers,
operational expenses related to ongoing utilities 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 country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain
in Australia. The construction and operation of the AWS Asia
Pacific (Melbourne) Region is also estimated to add approximately
$10.6 billion (approx. A$15.9 billion) to Australia’s GDP by
2037.
Customers welcome the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Hundreds of thousands of organizations in Australia are among
the millions of active customers using AWS in more than 190
countries around the world. Enterprises in Australia choose AWS to
innovate and assist with accelerating 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 help drive cost savings and better serve local
citizens. 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 building their
businesses with the use of AWS to rapidly scale nationally and
around the world.
ANZ Bank provides banking and financial products and services to
more than 8.5 million retail and business customers, and operate
across 32 markets. “We plan to deploy our AWS targeted workloads
and applications through the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region on
day one and want to make it our long-term primary AWS location,”
said Gerard Florian, group executive of Technology at ANZ. “The
lower latency and higher performance we expect of 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 more than 250 transport and mobility providers to enable
contactless payments on local buses, city networks, and national
public transport systems. “Our mission is to create a universal
payment experience around the world, which requires world-class
global infrastructure that can grow with us,” said Amin Shayan, CEO
at Littlepay. “To drive a seamless experience for our customers, we
ingest and process over 1 million monthly transactions in real time
using AWS, which enables us to generate insights that help us
improve our services. We are 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, at
a lower latency to help make commuting a simpler and more enjoyable
experience.”
PEXA Group operates Australia’s leading digital property
settlement platform, which provides an efficient, reliable, and
secure settlement experience for home buyers and sellers.
“Operational resilience is at the heart of our commitment to
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 makes it possible for us to deploy applications
securely across multiple Regions to improve the availability and
performance of our PEXA platform and continue helping more than
20,000 families a week settle their homes sooner.”
RMIT is a public research university with more than 96,000
students globally. “The launch of an AWS Region in Melbourne gives
us the additional capacity to assist researchers, students, and
academics to deliver world-class research outcomes that benefit
society,” said professor Calum Drummond, deputy vice chancellor of
Research and Innovation and vice president at RMIT. “We recently
launched RMIT University’s AWS Cloud Supercomputing facility, known
as RACE. RMIT researchers are using 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 network, will enable researchers
and students to innovate beyond the limitations of traditional
on-premises data centers.”
Australian AWS Partners also welcome the AWS Asia Pacific
(Melbourne) Region
The AWS Partner Network (APN) 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 helps by providing business,
technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS
ISVs, SIs, 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 customers' 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.
Cevo is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that provides cloud
services such as migration, data analytics, and managed services to
Australian companies including David Jones, Insignia Financial,
MYOB, and Jim’s Group. “Working with AWS has enabled us to expand
our team by more than 60 consultants in the past 12 months to meet
increased customer demand for deploying highly-regulated cloud
environments,” said James Lewis, CEO at Cevo. “As cloud adoption
continues to scale, we’re seeing more customers—particularly in the
financial, government, and retail sectors—move to the cloud to tap
into advanced modernization and analytics capabilities to ideate,
design and build new customer-focused services. With the AWS Asia
Pacific (Melbourne) Region, we can enable customers to drive more
experimentation at scale, while providing assurance that their data
is stored securely in Australia.”
Commitment to sustainability
As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon is committed to reaching
net-zero carbon across its business by 2040 and is on a path to
powering operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years
ahead of the original 2030 target. Amazon is the world’s largest
corporate purchaser of renewable energy, and as of 2021, reached
85% renewable energy across its business. Additionally, AWS will be
water positive by 2030, returning more water to communities than it
uses in its direct operations. Amazon has three renewable energy
investments in Australia, which include a wind farm in Hawkesdale,
Victoria, and two solar farms in New South Wales, in Gunnedah and
Suntop. When all three projects are operational, these renewable
energy investments are expected to generate 717,000 megawatt-hours
of renewable energy annually, the equivalent of the annual power
use of almost 115,000 Australian homes. Amazon now has 57 renewable
energy projects across the Asia-Pacific region.
About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine
learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things
(IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR
and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 99 Availability Zones within 31 geographic regions,
with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more
AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions
of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest
enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power
their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn
more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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