Amazon Web Services to invest more than R$10 billion to expand infrastructure in Brazil

A Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest R$10.1 billion (US$1.8 billion) through 2034 to expand, build, connect, operate, and maintain data centers in Brazil. This investment in AWS cloud infrastructure and connectivity in the State of São Paulo will help meet growing customer demand for cloud and generative artificial intelligence (AI) services.

This amount is in addition to the investment of R$19.2 billion (US$3.8 billion) made between 2011 and 2023, previously announced by AWS in Brazil, which contributed approximately R$24.1 billion (US$4.8 billion) to the gross domestic product (GDP). According to the Economic Impact Studyreleased in 2023, the investment generated an average of 10,000 jobs per year in local companies related to AWS data center operations during the period.

“Private investment is great news for Brazil. It is a sign of the industry’s confidence in our economy and a guarantee of sustainable growth, with the generation of jobs and income. I congratulate Amazon Web Services for this initiative, which will contribute to strengthening the technology sector in Brazil,” commented Geraldo Alckmin, Vice President of the Republic and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services.

“Brazil has a thriving technology sector and this additional investment will provide companies and public organizations across the country with valuable resources to support their innovation and growth,” said Shannon Kellogg, Vice President of Public Policy, Americas, AWS. “We are also committed to helping develop the next generation of cloud talent in Brazil through training initiatives and collaborations, and we hope that these professionals will drive innovation for decades to come in the country and across Latin America.”

The South America Region (São Paulo) was the eighth launched by AWS in the world, offering customers in the country and throughout Latin America low latency and access to advanced cloud computing technologies, such as computing, storage, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

The infrastructure launched with three Availability Zones in 2011, located far enough apart to support customer business continuity, but also close enough to provide low latency for highly available applications that span multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is connected via redundant, ultra-low latency networking. AWS customers seeking high availability can design their applications to run across multiple Availability Zones for even greater fault tolerance.

AWS’s on-premises infrastructure in Brazil also includes Edge Locations in Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, as well as Regional Edge Caches in São Paulo, providing customers with even lower latency for their applications.