Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched the country’s first AWS local zone in Perth, providing low-latency workloads on the cloud as well as better data residency. 

As the 29th local zone to be established all over the world, the Perth AWS local zone will help consumers throughout Australia and the Oceanic region make most of the low latency required for cases such as running virtual workstations and augmented and virtual reality processes.  

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“We are pleased to deepen our investments in Western Australia by bringing the first Australian AWS local zones location to Perth,” said Sarah Bassett, head of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland Enterprise at AWS Australia. 

“Speed matters in business, and we’ve designed AWS local zones to deliver low-latency capabilities for organisations to improve the performance of their digital applications, process large amounts of data faster, and drive productivity gains.” 

The AWS local zone also allows consumers to easily deploy applications closer to end users, and further aid those working within regulated sectors such as healthcare, public sector, and financial services in keeping their data within their geographic territory. 

Before the establishment of the local zone in Perth, AWS consumers would manage their workloads on-premises or in data centres. This created issues as different sets of APIs and tools would be used, forcing consumers to operate and maintain infrastructure in various cities to support low-latency applications. 

“AWS’ investment to launch its first Australian AWS local zones location in Perth is a big win for Western Australian organisations and the economy,” WA Minister for Innovation and the Digital Economy Stephen Dawson said. 

“An AWS local zones location in Perth opens up more opportunities for Western Australian businesses to innovate and develop new services enabling better experiences for their customers and our citizens.” 

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Aside from the AWS local zone in Perth, the company is also looking to establish more local zones in Brisbane and Auckland by 2024.  

The company further plans to expand its infrastructure across the globe, with local zones to be established in countries in the Asia-Pacific region such as India, Vietnam and the Philippines. 

Source: ITPro. Content has been edited for style and length. 

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