The first South American global cloud computing platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, was launched today in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the eighth geographic region worldwide in which the company has deployed its platform to offer suite of infrastructure Web services. AWS is focusing on South America-based businesses and global companies with customers in the region.
Many South American customers have been using AWS’ service in its existing regions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, the company said. With the launch of a new data center in São Paulo, AWS expects these customers to run their applications in Brazil, which may reduce latency to end users in South America and allow those that need their data to reside in South America to make such arrangements easily.
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AWS Senior Vice President Andy Jassy said that South America is full of innovative companies and that with the move into the region the company is excited to help even more businesses innovate faster.
For instance, Gol Airlines is using AWS to help provide onboard Wi-Fi service for customers and for automatic communication between airplanes and the onboard content system. Another customer, discount coupon site Peixe Urbano, said that AWS allowed it to launch, with zero capital expenditure, a site that has grown to a top 50 site without having to change infrastructure or architecture.
Developers and businesses can access AWS services from the new South America center, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudFormation.
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services is set to close its financial year with U.S. $750 million in revenue, compared with revenue of $34 billion for Amazon.com.
