Amazon Web Services
(AWS) has announced
the opening of the new
Bahrain region which is
enabling customers to
innovate faster and run
workloads from data
centres located in the
Middle East.
mazon Web Services (AWS)
has announced the opening of
the AWS Middle East (Bahrain)
Region. With this launch, AWS
now spans 69 Availability Zones within
22 geographic regions around the world
and has announced plans for nine more
Availability Zones across three more AWS
Regions in Indonesia, Italy and South Africa.
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Developers, start-ups and enterprises,
as well as government, education and
non-profit organisations can now run their
applications and serve end-users from
data centres located in the Middle East, as
well as leverage advanced technologies
from AWS cloud to drive innovation.
“The cloud has the chance to unlock Digital
Transformation in the Middle East,” said
Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon Web Services.
“We are launching advanced and secure
technology infrastructure that matches
the scale of our other AWS Regions
around the world and are already seeing
strong demand in the Middle East for AWS
technologies like Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning, data analytics, IoT and
much more.
“We are excited to see how our cloud
technology will provide new ways for
governments to better engage with
citizens, for enterprises to innovate
for their next phase of growth, and for
entrepreneurs to build businesses and
compete on a global scale.”
The new AWS Middle East (Bahrain)
Region offers three Availability Zones at
launch. AWS Regions are composed of
Availability Zones, which each comprise
of at least one data centre 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 networks. AWS customers focused
on high availability can design their
applications to run in multiple Availability
Zones to achieve greater fault-tolerance.
AWS infrastructure regions meet the
highest levels of security, compliance and
data protection.
Customers welcome the new AWS
Middle East (Bahrain) Region
Millions of active customers are using
AWS each month in over 190 countries
around the world, including tens of
thousands of customers in the Middle East
and North Africa (MENA).
AWS launches
region in the
Middle East
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