Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the opening of the Europe (Milan) Region, with services “available from today” (Tuesday) to improve availability and reduce latency for enterprises and service providers using the AWS cloud.
The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the sixth AWS Region in Europe alongside Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris and Stockholm. Organisations can now run their applications and serve end-users from data centres located in Italy. Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of global infrastructure and customer support at AWS, said: “Cloud technology has been a key part of the transformation of industries across Italy, from automotive and utilities, to manufacturing and retail, and so much more. With the new AWS Milan Region we look forward to supporting even more customers as they grow their organisations and innovate for their users across virtually all industries.”
The new Region has three Availability Zones. An AWS Availability Zone comprises of one or more data centres and they are located in separate and distinct geographic locations, with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity - yet near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications.
Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networking. “AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault-tolerance,” said the provider.
AWS first established a presence in the country in 2012, with the launch of an AWS Edge location in Milan. This was followed by an AWS office in the city in 2014 and another one in Rome in 2016, with significant and growing teams of business development managers, partner managers, professional services consultants, solutions architects and technical account managers.
In 2016, AWS acquired NICE Software, a leading provider of software and services for high performance and technical computing, located in Piedmont.
