Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure Region in Canada - the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Customers in West Canada will now have access to advanced AWS technologies, including data analytics, security, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), to drive innovation.
With the launch of the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, AWS has 105 Availability Zones across 33 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
The AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region consists of three Availability Zones. With the launch of the new Region, AWS becomes the first major cloud services provider to have an infrastructure region in Western Canada. The launch of the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region provides customers with more options to run workloads with even greater resilience and availability, and to securely store data in Canada, while providing even lower latency across the country to drive greater productivity, more efficient business operations, and enhanced real-time application performance.
The new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, specifically, is estimated to support an average of more than 1,300 FTE jobs annually, and AWS plans to invest more than $2.9 billion (approx. CA $4 billion) in Alberta through 2037.
Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP, Infrastructure Services, AWS
With the launch of the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, customers and partners across Canada now have additional infrastructure to deploy applications with greater resilience, availability, and lower latency, while enabling more customers to innovate with advanced technologies like artificial intelligence to help fuel economic development across the country. AWS is committed to helping organizations of all sizes and across all industries increase agility and drive innovation. We are proud to deepen our investment by driving local job creation, building cloud skills, and creating opportunities for growth and collaboration with our local customers and AWS Partners.
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Government of Canada
Our government is committed to positioning our domestic industries for long-term growth and sustainability. The powerful digital infrastructure being established by Amazon Web Services near Calgary, Alberta will support Canadian developers, startups, large enterprises and academic institutions in their work by enabling access to AWS’s powerful advanced cloud technologies. This means faster and more reliable access to cloud services to support computing, storage, networking, analytics, artificial intelligence, mobile, hybrid, media, and security, which helps to secure well-paying jobs across many new industries.
Garry Gross, VP, Platform and Systems Development, TELUS
In partnership with AWS, TELUS is transforming the connected home experience with the world’s first device-agnostic connected home solution that simplifies the installation, setup, and management of all of your connected devices. The addition of the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, combined with the AWS Canada (Central) Region ensures our customers enjoy a higher level of resilience and availability necessary to support this hyper-personalized smart home experience.
