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Web giant opens cloud computing regional office in Australia
26 November 2012
US web giant, Amazon, has opened a new data centre in Australia for its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon’s Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region will offer a full range of services to clients including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), DynamoDB, and Relational Database Service (RDS).
Sydney is the third regional location for Amazon Web Services in the Asia-Pacific, and the ninth worldwide. The company reports that 10,000 organisations in Australia and New Zealand are already using its cloud computing.
Senior Vice President for AWS Andy Jassy said, “Australia has one of the largest technology spends in the world and Australian companies have proven comfortable with outsourcing their technology needs.
“We felt that Australia was a very compelling market for us,” he said. “We really believe Australia has a chance to be one of our biggest regions in AWS.”
Amazon now has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and has announced that it will add a local AWS technical support operation in 2013.
Based in Seattle, NASDAQ-listed and a Fortune 500 company, Amazon began to offer IT infrastructure services in the form of web services to customers in 2006 and now offers cloud computing to 190 countries around the world.
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