Strategic Expansion in Latin America
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the opening of a new cloud region in Chile, making it the company's third region in Latin America. This move is part of a massive investment exceeding $4 billion, aimed at enhancing technical capabilities in the region and meeting the growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.
What Does This Launch Mean for Users?
The new region allows organizations in Chile and the Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Peru) to run workloads and store data locally, significantly reducing latency. The new infrastructure also provides vital solutions for companies subject to strict regulations, such as banks and financial institutions, whose local laws require data to remain within national borders.
The region will begin by offering core computing, storage, networking, and database services, with plans to include artificial intelligence and machine learning services, such as Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI, within the first year of operation.
Economic and Environmental Impact
Estimates indicate that this investment will contribute more than $7.5 billion to Chile's GDP, while supporting the creation of approximately 4,100 full-time jobs annually in the telecommunications, construction, and data center operations sectors. Environmentally, AWS is committed to high sustainability standards, as the new data centers rely on air cooling rather than water consumption, with a design that increases energy efficiency sevenfold compared to the industry average.
Investing in Technical Skills
In addition to infrastructure, AWS continues its efforts to develop local talent, having trained more than 200,000 people in Chile in cloud computing skills since 2017, with a target of reaching 300,000 learners by 2028. The "AWS Entrena Chile" program is part of this initiative, in collaboration with the Chilean Ministries of Science and Economy, to provide free training in the fields of artificial intelligence and the cloud.