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I’m happy to announce right this moment the opening of our twenty eighth AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), additionally recognized by its API title: eu-central-2.
An AWS Region means that you can deploy your most demanding workloads and replicate your purposes and knowledge throughout distinct teams of knowledge facilities referred to as Availability Zones. This new Region has three totally redundant Availability Zones positioned within the neighborhood of Zurich. It affords your prospects low-latency entry to your purposes whereas assembly your knowledge residency necessities.
Regions and Availability Zones
AWS has the idea of a Region. Each Region is totally remoted from all different Regions. Within every Region, we now have constructed Availability Zones. These Availability Zones are totally remoted partitions of our infrastructure that comprise a cluster of knowledge facilities. Availability Zones are usually separated by a number of kilometers to mitigate the impression of disasters that might have an effect on knowledge facilities. The distance between Availability Zones varies between Regions. The distance is giant sufficient to keep away from having knowledge facilities impacted by the identical occasion on the identical time however shut sufficient to permit workloads with synchronous knowledge replication. Availability Zones are linked by redundant, high-bandwidth, and low-latency community connections. Regions are linked by our custom-built, international, low-latency, non-public community with exabits per second of capability in Europe.
Unlike different cloud suppliers, who typically outline a area as a single knowledge middle, the a number of Availability Zone design of each AWS Region affords benefits corresponding to safety, availability, efficiency, and scalability.
Instances and Services
The workloads deployed to this new Europe (Zurich) three-AZ Region can use C5, C5d, I3, I3en, M5, M5d, M6gd, R5, R5d, and T3 situations, and might use an extended record of AWS companies together with Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppConfig, AWS Application Auto Scaling, Amazon Aurora, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Config, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudPath, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Direct Connect, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS),Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Fargate, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EMR, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Load Balancing – Network (NLB), Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Lambda, AWS Marketplace, AWS Health Dashboard, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), AWS Step Functions, AWS Support API, Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF), AWS Systems Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, VM Import/Export, AWS VPN, and AWS X-Ray.
Continuous Investments in Switzerland
AWS has an extended historical past of presence in Switzerland. We have labored with Swiss prospects and companions because the launch of AWS 16 years in the past. The first Swiss workplace was opened in Zurich in April 2016 to host the rising native staff of technical and enterprise professionals devoted to supporting Swiss prospects. In 2017, the AWS community was expanded into Switzerland with the launch of an Amazon CloudEntrance edge location and an AWS Direct Connect location. To help this progress, a second AWS workplace was opened in Geneva.
AWS plans to take a position as much as 5.9 billion Swiss francs (roughly $5.9 billion) within the Europe (Zurich) Region from 2022–2036 as we construct, keep, function, and develop knowledge facilities to help the projected progress in demand for AWS applied sciences by our prospects.
According to an AWS Economic Impact Study (EIS), this funding will contribute 16.3 billion Swiss francs (roughly $16.3 billion) to the GDP of Switzerland throughout the identical interval. This consists of the worth added by AWS companies to the IT sector in Switzerland, in addition to the direct, oblique, and induced results of AWS purchases from the Swiss knowledge middle provide chain. The research estimates that this funding will help a mean of two,500 full-time jobs yearly at exterior companies within the Swiss knowledge provide chain from 2022–2036.
Servicing our Swiss Customers
More than 10,000 Swiss prospects use AWS companies right this moment. Organizations corresponding to Fisch Asset Management, Helvetia, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich), Richemont, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (RSI), Swiss Post, Swisscom, and Swisstopo, simply to call just a few, use AWS. Private and public sector organizations in Switzerland use AWS to speed up their time to market, cut back prices related to IT operations, and scale their companies globally.
Global luxurious group Richemont, house owners of prestigious manufacturers like Cartier, Montblanc, IWC Schaffhausen, and Van Cleef & Arpels, moved its whole enterprise IT infrastructure, together with 120 SAP situations, to AWS. AWS, with its depth and breadth of companies, allows Richemont to offer their prospects with new digital experiences sooner, together with personalised storefronts and styling companies, video chat consultations that includes style reveals custom-made to the consumers’ tastes, and tailor-made affords for early entry to new objects earlier than they hit shops.
Swisscom, Switzerland’s main telecoms firm and certainly one of its main IT firms, is utilizing AWS’s confirmed and broad infrastructure and cloud capabilities to energy its 5G community, enhance operational effectivity, and gas innovation. Swisscom is pursuing a cloud-first technique and can use AWS to extend IT agility, drive operational efficiencies, and speed up time to marketplace for new data and communications know-how (ICT) options and companies.
With AWS infrastructure, Swiss startups have been capable of shortly scale their companies and compete globally. Ava, a digital ladies’s well being startup (acquired by FemTec Health) with places of work in Zurich, San Francisco, Makati, and Belgrade, is all in on AWS. They created the Ava Fertility Tracker as a every day companion for ladies, which gives ladies with real-time, personalised details about fertility, being pregnant, and normal well being. The Ava bracelet is now offered in 36 nations worldwide and has been working on AWS because the first gross sales day.
Extending Reach by AWS Partner Network
Switzerland-based AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners additionally welcomed the information of the launch of the Europe (Zurich) Region.
The APN consists of tens of hundreds of unbiased software program distributors (ISVs) and programs integrators (SIs) world wide. AWS SIs, consulting companions, and ISVs assist enterprise and public sector prospects migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical purposes, and supply a full vary of companies on your cloud environments. We have greater than 150 companions prepared that will help you in Switzerland, one third of them have their headquarters within the nation.
Promoting a Diverse Community of Professionals
In December 2020, Amazon introduced that it’s going to assist 29 million folks world wide develop their technological expertise with free cloud computing expertise coaching by 2025. Switzerland is a part of this international effort. Since 2019, AWS and our AWS coaching associate Digicomp have delivered coaching and certification applications to particular person learners, prospects, and AWS Partners to quickly construct cloud expertise and shut the abilities hole.
Several universities in Switzerland have delivered AWS Academy programs as a part of their curriculum, together with FHNW (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), Fachhochschule Luzern, and Technische Berufsschule Zürich. To date, 32 Swiss establishments participated within the AWS Academy program, and 16 of them supplied lessons in 2022.
In March 2022, AWS launched AWS re/Start in Switzerland in collaboration with Powerhouse Lausanne, a coaching supplier that promotes digital equality and variety in Switzerland. A second cohort of AWS re/Start started in October 2022 in collaboration with the non revenue Powercoders, which is concentrated on instructing IT expertise particularly to refugees and serving to them transition into the Swiss labor market.
| Available Today With the launch of the Europe (Zurich) Region, AWS is additional increasing its infrastructure providing, empowering you with the flexibleness to run purposes on essentially the most safe and dependable cloud infrastructure whereas sustaining native knowledge residency and offering the bottom potential latency for Swiss end-users. The new Region is accessible right this moment on the AWS Management Console and on your API calls. |
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Go and deploy your workloads on eu-central-2 right this moment!