Amazon Web Service to Establish New Data Centers in Paris

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of storage infrastructure and cloud computing for applications, has announced that it will be opening up new data centers in France, specifically in the city of Paris. It will be the fourth zone that AWS will be covering after Germany, UK, and Ireland.

Organizations try meeting local regulations about storing data. Keeping the sites means that the data can travel in lesser time. Some of the key cloud players like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are investing more and more to expand their data centers in order to develop their local cloud infrastructure and services. AWS has invested a lot in order to expand its business in France over the last ten years. It has two points of presence in Paris and another one in Marseilles, along with local offices.

Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist, AWS, stated in a blog post, “This will be the fourth AWS Region in Europe. We currently have two other Regions in Europe — EU (Ireland) and EU (Frankfurt) and an additional Region in the UK expected to launch in the coming months. Together, these Regions will provide our customers with a total of 10 Availability Zones (AZs) and allow them to architect highly fault tolerant applications while storing their data in the EU.”

By updating and introducing new features, and cutting prices, the Amazon subsidiary has been able to stand out from others like IBM SoftLayer, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Setting up new data centers involves a lot of expenditure. The operating expenses of AWS in the second quarter of the year was $2.02 billion.