AWS Region in Milan, Italy

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.’s company, announced the opening of the AWS Europe (Milan) region.

With this launch, AWS spans 76 availability zones within 24 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 9 more availability zones and 3 more AWS regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain.

The AWS Europe (Milan) region is the 6th AWS region in Europe alongside Dublin, Ireland, Frankfurt, Germany, London, UK, Paris, France, and Stockholm, Sweden. Developers, start-ups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end-users from data centers located in Italy, as well as leverage AWS technologies to drive innovation.

“AWS customers in Italy are among the most creative and innovative organizations that we support anywhere in the world, and we are always inspired by the work they do with our technology,” said Peter DeSantis, SVP of global infrastructure and customer support, AWS. “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 organizations and innovate for their users across virtually all industries.“

The AWS Europe (Milan) region has 3 availability zones. AWS regions are composed of availability zones, which each comprise of one or more data centers and are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to reduce the risk of a single event impacting BC, yet near enough to provide low latency for HA applications. Each availability zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, low-latency networking. Customers focused on HA can design their applications to run in multiple availability zones to achieve greater fault-tolerance.

AWS infrastructure regions meet security, compliance and data protection. Customers with data residency requirements to store their content in Italy can do so with the assurance that they retain ownership of their data and it will not move unless they choose to move it. Additionally, customers building applications that comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have access to another secure AWS infrastructure region in EU that meets security, compliance and data protection.

AWS continues to invest in Italy
The AWS Europe (Milan) region adds to AWS’s ongoing investment in Italy. 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 account managers, business development managers, customer services representatives, partner managers, professional services consultants, solutions architects, technical account managers, and more, to help customers to move to the cloud. Also in 2016,

AWS acquired Asti-based company NICE Software Ltd, a provider of software and services for HPC, located in Piedmont. In 2017, an edge location was opened in Palermo, and in 2019, an AWS Direct Connect endpoint launched in Milan, helping customers establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to AWS. Later in 2019, AWS launched 2 additional edge locations in Milan and one in Rome. These investments are in addition to the thousands of permanent jobs and over €4 billion of investment from Amazon, since 2010.

Developers and businesses can access the AWS Europe (Milan) region.

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