event impacting customers’ business continuity. But it will be near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications. Each Availability Zone is provides with independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networks.

In a statement, Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services, Inc, said, “For more than 14 years, AWS has supported organizations across almost every industry in Switzerland to speed up innovation, lower their IT costs, and transform their operations. AWS is excited to announce our upcoming region in Switzerland and help Swiss institutions, innovative startups, and world-leading pharma companies deliver cloud-powered applications to fuel economic development across the country.”

Having Kick started its operations in 2006, AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. Millions of active customers are using the platform each month in over 190 countries around the world.