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According to its own information, the cloud service provider Amazon Web Services has around 10,000 customers in Switzerland. Image: keystone
Amazon opens the first data center in Switzerland
With Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s leading cloud provider is opening a data center in Switzerland.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) subsidiary of Internet giant Amazon plans to open a data center in Switzerland. The new infrastructure region with three ‘availability zones’ is scheduled to go live in the second half of 2022.
With the AWS Europe “Zurich” region, more users will be able to run their applications in AWS data centers in Switzerland, according to a statement from the Amazon subsidiary on Monday.
AWS Regions consist of so-called Availability Zones, that is, technical infrastructures that are physically and geographically separated from each other. Each Availability Zone has an independent power supply, cooling, its own physical security and is connected through a redundant network with low latency, he said. According to its own information, AWS has around 10,000 customers in Switzerland.
Amazon’s biggest cloud rival, Microsoft, opened two data centers in the Zurich and Geneva regions in mid-2019. The first Microsoft Cloud customers in Switzerland include UBS, Swiss Re, Die Mobiliar, BKW, Skyguide and Swisscom .
Other cloud providers such as Google and Oracle also offer local data centers in Switzerland.
(was / sda / awp)
