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In February 2024, we introduced plans to increase Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Mexico. Today, I’m excited to announce the overall availability of the AWS Mexico (Central) Region with three Availability Zones and API code mx-central-1. This new AWS Region is the primary AWS infrastructure Region in Mexico and provides to our rising presence in Latin America.
The AWS Region in Mexico represents a major dedication to the nation’s digital future. AWS is planning to speculate greater than $5 billion in Mexico over 15 years. This AWS Region will present prospects with superior and safe cloud applied sciences, together with cutting-edge synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML) capabilities with purpose-built processors, whereas supporting Mexico’s rising digital financial system. With this effort, AWS will help a median of greater than 7,000 full-time equal jobs yearly in Mexico, including greater than $10 billion to Mexico’s gross home product (GDP). AWS has additionally launched a $300,000 AWS InCommunities Fund in Queretaro to assist native teams, colleges, and organizations provoke new group tasks.
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
The AWS Mexico (Central) Region offers organizations in Mexico with a brand new choice to run their workloads and retailer knowledge regionally. Organizations that want knowledge residency capabilities, enhanced efficiency with decrease latency, or sturdy safety requirements can now use infrastructure positioned in Mexico.
AWS in Mexico
AWS has operated infrastructure in Mexico since 2020. The infrastructure consists of seven Amazon CloudEntrance edge places, AWS Outposts, and strategic choices akin to AWS Local Zones in Queretaro and AWS Direct Connect. These infrastructure choices assist prospects run low-latency functions whereas sustaining safe connectivity.
Performance and Innovation
The AWS Mexico (Central) Region brings AWS infrastructure and providers nearer to native prospects. With this new Region, AWS offers decrease latency for purchasers in Mexico in comparison with utilizing different AWS Regions. Customers can even be capable to use our innovation in purpose-built processors, notably AWS Graviton, that delivers as much as 40% higher value efficiency in comparison with x86-based Amazon EC2 cases throughout various workloads.
This technological benefit extends to our cutting-edge AI and ML capabilities, together with:
- Advanced ML infrastructure with AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia for scalable generative AI deployment.
- Purpose-built processors optimized for cloud workloads to ship finest price-performance.
Security and Compliance
AWS offers comprehensive safety capabilities with help for 143 safety requirements and compliance certifications, together with PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, and NIST 800-171. All AWS prospects personal their knowledge, select the place to retailer it, and resolve if/when to maneuver it. This means prospects storing content material within the AWS Mexico (Central) Region have the peace of mind that their content material is not going to depart Mexico, except they selected to maneuver it.
AWS Customers in Mexico
Leading Mexican organizations are already reaching vital outcomes with AWS. Companies akin to Aeroméxico, Banco Santander Mexico, Cinépolis, Grupo Salinas, Kavak, Palace Resorts, and Vector Casa de Bolsa are working mission-critical workloads on AWS. Here are key examples:
BBVA, a number one multinational monetary providers firm, is utilizing AWS to speed up its data-driven transformation. Using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, BBVA is empowering over 1,000 knowledge scientists to construct, prepare, and deploy machine studying fashions effectively. This know-how permits BBVA to discover superior applied sciences and create revolutionary monetary options, supporting their purpose of turning into a real knowledge and AI-driven digital group.
Grupo Multimedios, a number one Mexican media group, is pioneering the usage of generative AI, by implementing Amazon Bedrock for his or her media asset supervisor (MAM), decreasing content material analysis time by 88%, lowering information era time by 40%, and rising content material manufacturing by 70% (250 further information gadgets every day). As the fastest-growing media group embracing technological management, their AI implementation demonstrates a dedication to innovation whereas streamlining operations.
Bowhead Health, a digital healthcare firm, is revolutionizing most cancers analysis through the use of Amazon Bedrock to speed up the analysis pipeline. The firm has constructed an enormous, de-identified dataset that’s prepared for evaluation with out conventional recruitment boundaries. Bowhead Health additionally delivers sturdy, real-world insights to drive quicker breakthroughs in oncology drug growth.
SkyAlert, an revolutionary know-how firm defending tens of millions in earthquake-prone areas, reworked its alert system by migrating to AWS in 2018. Before AWS, their system required 20 digital machines and skilled vital delays throughout important moments. Using AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Amazon Pinpoint, they’ll now scale robotically and ship messages to customers shortly. With the opening of the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, SkyAlert anticipates additional enhancements to their providers with native AWS infrastructure. As Santiago Cantú, Co-Founder of SkyAlert, explains, “The opening of the AWS Region in Mexico is an extremely important event for SkyAlert and for the security of those who trust us. Having local AWS infrastructure will improve our ability to deliver critical alerts, which potentially save lives, even faster and more reliably. This perfectly aligns with our mission to provide the most robust and advanced earthquake early warning system available. The new Region will allow us to take even greater advantage of AWS services, ensuring that we continue to be at the forefront of innovation in disaster preparedness.”
Building Skills Together
AWS has made vital investments in upskilling initiatives in Mexico together with:
- Training over 500,000 people in cloud know-how since 2017.
- Collaborating with the the Ministry of Economy to coach 138,000 individuals in digital know-how as of 2024.
- Partnering with universities like Universidad Panamericana and Tec de Monterrey to show digital expertise.
- Training packages with Canacintra for 20,000 Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) leaders.
AWS Commitment to Sustainability
Amazon is dedicated to reaching net-zero carbon throughout its enterprise by 2040. A current Accenture examine exhibits that working workloads on AWS is as much as 4.1 instances extra energy-efficient than on-premises environments. When workloads are optimized on AWS, the related carbon footprint could be lowered by as much as 99%. The AWS Mexico (Central) Region incorporates sustainable design practices, utilizing air-cooling know-how that eliminates the necessity for cooling water in operations. With this new Region, prospects can even profit from AWS sustainability efforts throughout its infrastructure. To study extra about sustainability at AWS, go to the AWS Cloud sustainability web page.
Things to know
AWS Community in Mexico – The AWS Community in Mexico is without doubt one of the most vibrant in Latin America, with 26+ AWS Community Builders and 15 AWS User Groups. These teams are positioned in Jalisco, Puebla, Monterrey, Mérida, Mexico City, Mexicali, Cancún, León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Ensenada, Saltillo, Tijuana, and Villahermosa, plus a specialised User Group known as Embajadoras cloud (Cloud ambassadors) centered on girls’s skilled growth. Together, these teams comprise 9,000+ whole members.
AWS Global footprint – With this launch, AWS now spans 114 Availability Zones inside 36 geographic Regions.
Available now – The new AWS Mexico (Central) Region is able to help your corporation, and yow will discover an in depth checklist of the providers accessible on this Region on the AWS Services by Region web page.
To begin constructing in mx-central-1, go to the AWS Global Infrastructure web page.
Thanks to David Victoria for the AWS Community México 2024 picture.
— Eli