AWS to Open Data Centers in UAE
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 2:45PM IST (9:15AM GMT)
New cloud infrastructure region to launch in first half of 2022, allowing customers to run workloads and store data locally while serving end-users with even lower latency
Seattle, United States:
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it plans to open an infrastructure region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first half of 2022. The new AWS Middle East (UAE) Region will consist of three Availability Zones and become AWS’s second region in the Middle East with the existing AWS Region in Bahrain, giving customers more choice and flexibility to leverage advanced technologies from the world’s leading cloud. Globally, AWS has 80 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia,