At the moment, I’m joyful to announce that we’re engaged on an AWS Area in Mexico. This AWS Mexico (Central) Area would be the second Area in Latin America becoming a member of the AWS South America (São Paulo) Area and can give AWS clients the flexibility to run workloads and retailer knowledge that should stay in-country.

Mexico within the works

The Area will embrace three Availability Zones, each bodily impartial of the others within the Area but far sufficient aside to reduce the danger that an occasion in a single Availability Zone can have influence on enterprise continuity. The Availability Zones shall be linked to one another by high-bandwidth, low-latency community connections over devoted, totally redundant fiber.

With this announcement, AWS now has 5 new Areas within the works (Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Thailand) and 15 upcoming new Availability Zones.

AWS funding in Mexico

The upcoming AWS Mexico Area is the most recent in ongoing investments by AWS in Mexico to supply clients with superior and safe cloud applied sciences. Since 2020, AWS has launched seven Amazon CloudFront edge areas in Mexico. Amazon CloudFront is a extremely safe and programmable content material supply community (CDN) that accelerates the supply of information, movies, purposes, and APIs to customers worldwide with low latency and excessive switch speeds.

In 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts in Mexico. AWS Outposts is a household of totally managed options delivering AWS infrastructure and companies to nearly any on-premises or edge location for a really constant hybrid expertise. AWS expanded its infrastructure footprint in Mexico once more in 2023 with the launch of AWS Native Zones in Queretaro. AWS Native Zones are a sort of AWS infrastructure deployment that locations compute, storage, database, and different choose companies nearer to giant inhabitants, trade, and IT facilities, enabling clients to ship purposes that require single-digit millisecond latency to finish customers. In 2023, AWS established an AWS Direct Join location in Queretaro, permitting clients to ascertain non-public connectivity between AWS and their knowledge middle, workplace, or colocation atmosphere.

Here’s a glimpse into our clients in Mexico and the thrilling, revolutionary work they’re enterprise:

Banco Santander Mexico is without doubt one of the main monetary teams within the nation, targeted on industrial banking and securities financing, serving greater than 20.5 million clients. “AWS has been a strategic companion for our digital transformation,” mentioned Juan Pablo Chiappari, head of IT Infrastructure for North America. “Because of their wide selection of companies, now we have been in a position to innovate quicker, enhance our buyer expertise and scale back our working prices.”

SkyAlert is an revolutionary expertise firm that shortly alerts thousands and thousands of individuals residing in earthquake-prone areas, selling a tradition of prevention towards pure disasters. In an effort to present clients—each companies and people—with the best instruments to guard themselves throughout earthquakes, SkyAlert migrated its infrastructure to AWS. After implementing its Web of Issues (IoT) answer to run on AWS and its environment friendly alert service, SkyAlert scales shortly and may ship thousands and thousands of messages in a couple of seconds, serving to to save lots of lives within the occasion of earthquakes.

Kueski is a web-based lender for the center class of Mexico and Latin America. The corporate makes use of huge knowledge and superior analytics to approve and ship loans in a matter of minutes. The corporate has change into the fastest-growing platform of its variety within the area and has already granted hundreds of loans. They have been born with AWS.

Bolsa Institucional de Valores (BIVA) is a inventory trade based mostly in Mexico, backed by Nasdaq. BIVA supplies native and world buyers with cutting-edge expertise for buying and selling and market options and firms with itemizing and upkeep companies. As a part of its imaginative and prescient of innovation, BIVA began its journey to the cloud in 2023 by migrating its catastrophe restoration web site, together with its buying and selling and market surveillance methods, to AWS, utilizing edge compute capabilities accessible in each the AWS Native Zones in Queretaro, Mexico, to attain their low latency wants.

Keep Tuned
The AWS Area in Mexico will open in early 2025. As standard, subscribe to this weblog in order that you may be among the many first to know when the brand new Area is open!

To study extra about AWS International Cloud Infrastructure, see the International Infrastructure web page.

— Irshad