AWS News Blog
Category: Regions
AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services
AWS has had a presence in Japan for a long time! We opened the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, added a third Availability Zone (AZ) in 2012, and a fourth in 2018. Since that launch, customers in Japan and around the world have used the region to host an incredibly wide variety of […]
Read MoreIn the Works – AWS Region in Hyderabad, India
We opened the AWS Regions in South Africa and Italy earlier this year and are currently working on regions in Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland. Second AWS Region in India We launched the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region in June 2016, giving enterprises, public sector organizations, startups, and SMBs access to state-of-the-art public cloud infrastructure. In […]
Read MoreNow Open – Fourth Availability Zone in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
South Korea is considered the most wired country in the world with an internet penetration rate of 96%, according to Pew Research Center. To meet high customer demand, AWS launched our Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region in 2016 and expanded the region with a third Availability Zone (AZ) in May 2019. Now AWS has tens of […]
Read MoreNow Open – AWS Europe (Milan) Region
Today, I am very happy to announce that, as we anticipated some time ago, a new AWS Region is available in Italy! The Europe (Milan) Region is our sixth Region in Europe, and is composed of 3 availability zones (AZs) that you can use to reliably spread your applications across multiple data centers, for example […]
Read MoreNow Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and store your data in South Africa. The addition of this new Region enables all organizations to […]
Read MoreNow Open – Third Availability Zone in the AWS Canada (Central) Region
When you start an EC2 instance, it’s easy to underestimate what an AWS Region is. Right now, we have 22 across the world, and while they look like dots on a global map, they are architected to let you run applications and store data with high availability and fault tolerance. In fact, each of our Regions is […]
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