AWS to launch infrastructure Region in Mexico by early 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud arm of Amazon, has announced plans to launch an AWS infrastructure Region in Mexico by early 2025. The upcoming AWS Mexico (Central) Region will allow customers to run workloads and securely store their content in Mexico while serving end users with even lower latency.

"AWS is excited to see thousands of customers in nearly every industry across Mexico innovate and grow. Our investment in Mexico reflects AWS's long-term commitment to customers so they can take advantage of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. We look forward to helping customers in Mexico meet data residency preferences and deliver cloud-based applications with low latency, accelerating the country's digital transformation, and fueling economic growth," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS.

Today's announcement is in line with AWS's long-term commitment to meeting the high demand for cloud services in Latin America. The company plans to invest more than $5 billion (approx. MXN $85 billion) in Mexico over 15 years.

The AWS Mexico (Central) Region will have three Availability Zones (AZs) at launch, adding to the company's existing 105 AZs across 33 geographic regions around the world.

Availability Zones are strategically placed far enough from each other to support customers' business continuity but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple AZs. Each zone has its power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low-latency networks.

"Cloud services are an essential part of everyday life, helping us to digitally and economically transform Mexico. We welcome AWS's investment and expansion in Mexico because it is a sign of trust and demonstrates conditions are right to support the nearshoring trend across many sectors of our economy. We also welcome AWS's investment in training students, micro, small and medium-sized companies, and digital entrepreneurs in Mexico at scale," said Raquel Buenrostro, Mexican secretary of economy.