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Amazon Web Services expands presence in Mexico

Amazon Web Services has a new infrastructure region.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing a new level of hosted cloud capabilities and services to customers in Mexico.

The hosted cloud services division of Amazon has launched an AWS infrastructure region in Mexico. Initially announced in March 2024, the AWS Mexico (Central) Region is designed to enable customers with data residency preferences to store their content securely in Mexico and achieve lower latency

The AWS Mexico (Central) Region consists of three Availability Zones that Amazon says are located far enough from each other to support business continuity, but 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 can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve greater fault tolerance.

AWS services available to customers in its new Mexico (Central) Region include analytics, compute, database, IoT, generative AI, machine learning, mobile services, storage, and other cloud technologies.

"This launch marks a significant step as we continue to expand our infrastructure and deliver global innovation in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies for our customers,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of infrastructure services at AWS. 

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AWS builds on Mexico investment

According to Amazon, AWS is planning to invest more than $5 billion in Mexico over 15 years. In 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts in Mexico to deliver AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for hybrid computing. 

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Since then, AWS has also launched seven Amazon CloudFront edge locations in Mexico, and in 2023 deployed AWS Local Zones in the state of Queretaro. AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers, enabling customers to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end users. 

AWS has also established two AWS Direct Connect locations in Queretaro, allowing customers to establish private connectivity between AWS and data center, office, or colocation environments.

"With access to secure and reliable infrastructure, along with a broad set of AWS technologies, this new AWS Region will help businesses across Mexico sit at the center of AI and ML innovation," Kalyanaraman said. "We’re proud to deepen our investment in Mexico to help support business transformation, foster technology talent, build cloud skills, and create opportunities for economic growth."

AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. With the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, AWS has 114 Availability Zones across 36 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. 

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