COUNTRY FOCUS: ITALY
The new Amazon Web Services Europe
(Milan) Region expands the cloud
pioneer’s global footprint, enabling
customers to run applications and store
their content in data centres in Italy.
The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the
sixth AWS Region in Europe.
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Amazon Web Services
launches region in Italy
Amazon Web Services (AWS),
an Amazon.com company has
announced the opening of the AWS
Europe (Milan) Region. With this launch,
AWS now spans 76 Availability Zones within
24 geographic regions around the world
and has announced plans for nine more
Availability Zones and three more AWS
Regions in Indonesia, Japan and Spain.
The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the
sixth AWS region in Europe alongside
Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris and
Stockholm. Developers, start-ups and
enterprises, as well as government,
education and non-profit organisations
can run their applications and serve
end-users from data centres located in
Italy, as well as leverage advanced AWS
technologies to drive innovation.
“AWS customers in Italy are among the most
creative and innovative organisations that
we support anywhere in the world and we
are always inspired by the work they do with
our technology,” said Peter DeSantis, Senior
Vice President of Global Infrastructure and
Customer Support, Amazon Web Services.
“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 AWS Europe (Milan) Region has
three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are
composed of Availability Zones, which
each comprise of one or more data centres
and 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
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