AWS is investing US$4.5 billion (A$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037 and announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure Region in Australia, the AWS Asia Pacific Melbourne Region

It is estimated that the recently established Region will be able to provide more than 2,500 full-time positions a year, due to a projected investment of over US$4.5 billion (around A$6.8 billion) in Australia until 2037.

AWS vice president of infrastructure services Prasad Kalyanaraman says Australia has a strong history of technical innovation and the launch of a second AWS Region in Australia.

According to Kalyanaraman it will provide greater resilience and enables more customers to develop cloud-based applications that help fuel economic development across the country.

“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.” says Kalyanaraman

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.

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.

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.

They are 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.

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.