A few days after AWS evangelist Jeff Barr announced via his blog that Amazon Web Services will establish South Korea as new company region in early 2016 , the company’s fifth such region in Asia Pacific, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has used his blog to announce that the UK has been added to Amazon’s list of regions. The move will see the company establish a datacentre in the UK to service its clients.
Vogels wrote “Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list! The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union , and we’re shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users.”
Vogels wrote continued “Leading UK organizations were among the early adopters of the cloud when we first started AWS back in 2006 and we continue to help them drive increased agility, lower IT costs, and easily scale globally. Here are some examples of how our UK customers are using the AWS platform:
- Hot Startups – Shazam, Hailo, Omnifone, Yplan, SwiftKey, Aire, GoSquared
- Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power, Holiday Extras, Exeter Family Friendly, Royal Opera House, Total Jobs,
- Retail Companies – Shop Direct, Nisa Retail, Kurt Geiger, Sport Pursuit
- Enterprise Companies – Unilever, ATOC, National Rail Enquiries
- Media and Entertainment – BBC, Channel 4, ITV, News UK, The FT, Trinity Mirror, The Guardian
- Public Sector & Not-for-Profit – UCAS, Makewaves, JustGiving.”
The new region, coupled with the existing AWS regions in Dublin and Frankfurt, will provide customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, big data analysis, Internet of Things applications, and more.
