Amazon inaugurated this Wednesday in Aragon its new infrastructure region in Spain for its cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company claims that it will invest 2.5 billion euros in the project over a decade and will generate 1,300 jobs, with an impact on GDP of 1.8 billion euros.
With the facilities, distributed between Huesca and Zaragoza, it seeks to promote innovation, digitization and support economic growth, according to sources from the American company. The new region will allow developers, startups, entrepreneurs, companies and public, educational and non-profit organizations to run workloads and store data with even lower latency, it has reported in a statement.
This will be the eighth European region for Amazon Web Services after Dublin, Stockholm, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris and Zurich. "It is an important milestone that helps to position our country as a leading digital economy", stated the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. "It will enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to accelerate innovation, improve business processes, and reinvent their customer and end-user experiences," according to AWS Vice President of Infrastructure Services Prasad Kalyanaraman. It is "a new world-class local infrastructure," he added.
In total, AWS reaches 190 countries around the world, with tens of thousands of customers on the Peninsula. Based on data from Amazon, more than 75% of the Ibex 35 uses the services. In Spain, a large number of listed companies such as Telefónica, Acciona, Atresmedia, Ávoris, Banco Santander, Bankinter or BBVA are users of AWS; public sector organizations and institutions such as the Madrid City Council, the Post Office, the Government of Aragon, the Junta de Andalucía, or the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and also SMEs.
