Mexico. “I am pleased to announce that we are working on an AWS region in Mexico. It will be the second in Latin America, after the South American region, and will provide our clients with the ability to run workloads and store data that must remain in the country.”
This is how Irshad Buchh, solutions architect at Amazon Web Services, expressed himself when making the announcement, after which he added that this is the most recent ongoing investment carried out by the company to offer advanced and secure cloud technologies to the Mexican market.
The new region will comprise three independent availability zones, with sufficient distance from each other to mitigate the risk that an event that occurs in one threatens business continuity in the others.
Additionally, Buchh specified that these availability zones will be connected to each other through high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections through dedicated and fully redundant fiber.
With this announcement, AWS completes five new regions (Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Thailand), as well as 15 new upcoming availability zones.
AWS investment in Mexico
Since 2020, Amazon Web Services has launched seven Amazon CloudFront edge locations in Mexico. Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure, programmable content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs around the world with low latency and high transfer speeds.
Also in 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts in Mexico. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that deliver Amazon Web Services infrastructure and services, at virtually any on-premises or edge location “for a truly consistent hybrid experience.”
AWS expanded its infrastructure presence in Mexico again in 2023 with the launch of AWS Local Zones in Querétaro. These solutions deploy infrastructure that places compute, storage, databases, and other select services closer to large population, industrial, and IT centers, enabling customers to deliver applications that require single-millisecond latency. digit for end users.
Additionally, in 2023, AWS established an AWS Direct Connect location in Querétaro, allowing customers to establish private connectivity between AWS and their data center, office, or colocation environment.
The AWS Mexico region will open in early 2025.
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“The new AWS Region in our country will improve our ability to harness the power of the cloud to better serve our customers and bring new high-quality services to the market,” said Gonzalo de Hoz, director of Technology at Banco Santander México, an entity that currently serves more than 20.5 million customers.
For its part, the earthquake warning technology company SkyAlert announced that it migrated its infrastructure to AWS. After deploying its Internet of Things (IoT) solution to run on AWS and its alert service, according to the company, this has allowed it to scale its solution quickly and send millions of messages in a few seconds, which helps to save lives.
Kueski is an online lender for the middle class in Mexico and Latin America that was born with AWS. The company uses big data and advanced analytics to approve and issue loans in minutes. The company has become the fastest growing platform of its kind in the region and has already provided thousands of loans.
Meanwhile, the Institutional Stock Exchange (BIVA) began its journey to the cloud in 2023, migrating its disaster recovery site, including its trading and market surveillance systems, to AWS. Thus, by utilizing edge computing capabilities available in both local AWS zones in Querétaro, BIVA has managed to meet its low latency needs.
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