companies can thrive – with the National Data Center Plan leading the way,” said Aisén Etcheverry Escudero, Chile’ s Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation.

“ This investment demonstrates clear confidence in our country and a commitment to technological development and innovation across the region.”

With the new AWS Region, organizations will have the ability to build with advanced AWS technologies.

• The AWS South America( Chile) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, adding to the existing 114 Availability Zones across 36 AWS Regions globally.

• The AWS Region in Chile will be architected to be sovereign-by-design, just as the AWS Cloud has been since day one.

• To support the growth in cloud adoption across Latin America, Amazon continues to invest in upskilling students, local developers and technical professionals, nontechnical professionals and the next generation of IT leaders in Chile through offerings like AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Skill Builder. Since 2017, Amazon has trained more than two million people across Latin America on cloud skills, including more than 100,000 people in Chile.

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