Official: the new AWS Region in Italy is live
The Europe (Milan) Region is our sixth Region in Europe and consists of 3 Availability Zones (AZs) that can be used to reliably distribute workloads across multiple data centers. Each AZ is a completely isolated partition of our infrastructure that contains one or more data centers.
are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with sufficient distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting availability in the Region, but close enough for business continuity applications that require fast failover and synchronous replication. This gives you the ability to handle production applications that require high availability, are more fault-tolerant, and more scalable than would be possible from a single data center. Fully managed services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), AWS Lambda , and Amazon DynamoDB, automatically replicate data and applications across all AZs. A national infrastructure is also critical for Italian customers with data residency requirements and regulations, such as those operating in the public, healthcare, and financial sectors.
With this launch, AWS now has 76 AZs in 24 geographic regions around the world, with 3 new regions coming to Indonesia, Japan, and Spain.
It therefore becomes clear that Jeff Bezos’ Closso Cloud wants to invest heavily in Europe and Italy, with a move that at the same time favors Public Administration Customers, guaranteeing a higher level of security and reliability, but also Private Customers, who will be able to enjoy both lower latencies and higher performance but at the same time ensure compliance with every security standard imposed by European and national institutions.
