AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region is now open

Kiwibank is the largest New Zealand-owned bank, supporting over one million customers. “A local AWS region will be a game-changer, boosting performance, resilience, and security while keeping data closer to our customers. Kiwibank's partnership work with AWS on CloudUp for Her has already shown how cloud adoption drives both innovation and talent development. With this expansion, we will be able to scale faster, create more opportunities to upskill talent, and maintain the reliability and security our customers expect,” said Ranjit Jayanandhan, General Manager, Experience Hub at Kiwibank.

MATTR is a New Zealand-based organisation providing infrastructure and digital trust services to businesses and governments. "MATTR is thrilled to be part of the launch of the AWS New Zealand Region. This milestone is significant, allowing us to deliver more options to New Zealand customers for their TrustTech solutions, helping to ensure that New Zealand’s unique needs around data sovereignty can be met. Having a local AWS Region means we can better support public and private sector organisations in building secure, privacy-preserving digital experiences—all while keeping sensitive data onshore. This provides choice for New Zealand customers using Mattr's verifiable credential and digital identity solutions backed by world-class infrastructure from AWS available locally as the foundation for growth and scale," said Martin Eichenberg, Head of Site Reliability & Operations at MATTR.

Vector is a New Zealand energy company, which runs a portfolio of businesses delivering energy and communication services to more than 600,000 residential and commercial customers across New Zealand. “We’re currently using AWS to run a significant portion of our digital workloads as we migrate, modernise, and transition toward a more sustainable environment. With local, faster access to AWS services through the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region we can accelerate our vision of creating a new energy future. We're excited to be among the first companies in New Zealand to embrace the latest advancements in cloud technology,” said Jerry Li, General Manager, Digital Technology, Vector.

Xero, a global small business platform helps customers supercharge their business by bringing together the most important small business tools, including accounting, payroll and payments—on one platform. Leveraging AWS since 2016, Xero has scaled its platform globally, enhancing its features and enabling continual innovation. “Amazon’s commitment to the New Zealand tech industry through its NZ$7.5 billion investment is promising. It is a significant vote of confidence that will help connect New Zealand tech exporters with new global opportunities across the AWS ecosystem and the broader Amazon network,” said Bridget Snelling, Xero country manager, New Zealand.

CyberCX is the leading provider of professional cyber security and cloud services across Australia and New Zealand. Enabling the geographical AWS regional choice in NZ for sovereignty and security controls without compromise, through CyberCX with AWS, is exciting for New Zealand. Enabling low latency, in country enhanced resiliency of sovereign cloud assets, applications and environments will help unlock NZ businesses and government agencies alike. We are very proud to be a launch partner with the highest level of AWS and Cyber Security pedigree, to support customers ” John Taylor,  CyberCX Executive Director for AWS.

Datacom, one of the region’s largest homegrown technology companies, is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner. “Our strategic partnership with AWS has enabled our team to provide AWS cloud and advanced services, such as AI and ML, to help our customers accelerate their cloud transformation, boost productivity, and adopt new customer experiences,” said Justin Gray, Managing Director, Datacom New Zealand. “The strength of this almost 20-year partnership is that the solutions we develop for our customers are underpinned by AWS’s commitment to infrastructure, security, and privacy. We look forward to being among the first New Zealand organisations to leverage AWS’s new Auckland Region for our public and private sector customers.”

Deloitte New Zealand is a professional services organization providing audit, tax, technology and systems, strategy and performance improvement, risk management, corporate finance, business recovery, forensic and accounting services. “We view the launch of the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region as an important step forward in New Zealand’s technology sector that will enable our customers to generate even more business value from cloud solutions. As a leading AWS Partner, training and certification are key to the development of our people, and we see the Region as driving further education around cloud as the demand for AWS skills increases. This will ignite New Zealand’s transition to a technology hub and continue to enhance our reputation for innovation,” said Damian Harvey, Technology Partner at Deloitte.

Lancom is a cloud-first Managed Services Provider, designing and delivering AWS infrastructure, developing custom software, and creating smart Business Process Automations. “Being selected as a launch partner for the AWS New Zealand Region is a proud and exciting milestone for us at Lancom Technology. It’s a testament to the deep capability we’ve built over the past decade. This opportunity gives us access to programs like the AWS Custom Fund and exclusive events- enabling us to help our customers migrate with confidence, innovate faster, and keep their data securely hosted right here in Aotearoa.”  said Priscila Bernardes, CEO at Lancom.