This is the second AWS Infrastructure Region in Australia and will provide AWS customers with greater choice for running applications and serving end users, with increased resilience and availability and more options to securely store data locally in Australia.

AWS also released an economic impact study estimating that the company’s projected spending on the construction and operation of the new Region will support over 2,500 full-time jobs annually with local vendors in Victoria, with a planned $6.8 billion investment in Australia from 2022-2037.

The investment includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centres, operational expenses related to ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses.

Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS said,

“Australia has a strong history of technical innovation, and the launch of a second AWS Region in Australia provides even greater resilience and enables more customers to develop cloud-based applications that help fuel economic development across the country."

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.

AWS ANZ managing director Rianne Van Veldhuizen 

"I'm excited to announce AWS Melbourne region is here. It will bring cloud closer to our Victorian customers so they can store data securely, be more resilient, and deliver even lower latency."

Hundreds of thousands of organizations in Australia are among the millions of active customers using AWS in more than 190 countries around the world. 

Enterprises in Australia choose AWS to innovate and assist with accelerating time to market. Customers using AWS include Airtasker, Animal Logic, ANZ Bank, Cochlear, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Jim’s Group, Kmart, Lion, Lovisa, National Australia Bank, Optus, PEXA Group, Pizza Hut, Smiling Mind, Swimming Australia, Target, Telstra, Ticketek, Woodside Energy, and Youfoodz.

Australian public sector customers use AWS to help drive cost savings and better serve local citizens. These customers include FrontierSI, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), University of Melbourne, and Victorian Land Registry Services.

Australian startups, including Brighte, FloodMapp, FrankieOne, Illuvium, Law On Earth, Littlepay, Mr Yum, Omniscient Neurotechnology (o8t), Reejig, and Swoop Aero, are building their businesses with the use of AWS to rapidly scale nationally and around the world.

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AWS Melbourne Region Launch Technical Deep Dive       The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region consists of three Availability Zones and is our second AWS Region in Australia, joining the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region which launched in 2012. This second AWS Region in Australia will provide customers with even more options to run workloads with higher performance, greater flexibility and availability, securely store data in Australia, and serve end users with even lower latency. To find out how this new AWS Region is providing highly secure, high performance and the most flexible Cloud infrastructure, watch parts one and two of our technical deep dive on-demand today.