AWS Announces Israel Data Centers To Aid Country's Digital Transformation
Amazon.com Inc’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) voiced its plans to introduce an infrastructure region in Israel in the first half of 2023.
The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region will enable even more developers, startups, enterprises, government, education, and non-profits to run their applications and serve end-users from data centers located in Israel.
Additionally, the government of Israel chose AWS as its primary cloud provider under the “Nimbus” contract for government ministries and subsidiaries.
The Nimbus framework will provide cloud services to Israeli government ministries to accelerate digital transformation.
Previously Israel inked a deal with AWS and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for its public sector and military, Reuters reported.
AWS and Google won a tender in April for the four-phase project “Nimbus.”
Price action: AMZN shares traded higher by 0.17% at $3,355.50 in the premarket session on the last check Friday.
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