Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Europe (London) Region, joining existing regions in Ireland and Germany.
An AWS Region is a physical location in the world where AWS has multiple Availability Zones with one or more discrete data centres, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.
It says that over one hundred thousand UK-based customers already use existing AWS Regions and developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organisations, can leverage the AWS Cloud to run their applications and store their data on infrastructure in the UK
"Our customers and APN Partners asked us to build an AWS Region in the UK so they can run their mission-critical workloads and store sensitive data on AWS infrastructure locally," said Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS.