Update: December 20, 2023 — The list of services available today at launch is now updated with AWS Artifact, AWS Cloud Control API, AWS Directory Services, EC2 Image Builder, and AWS Transit Gateway for a new total of 70 services.
Today, we are opening a new Region in Canada. AWS Canada West (Calgary), also known as ca-west-1, is the thirty-third AWS Region. It consists of three Availability Zones, for a new total of 105 Availability Zones globally. This second Canadian Region allows you to architect multi-Region infrastructures that meet five nines of availability while keeping your data in the country.
A global footprint
Our approach to building infrastructure is fundamentally different from other providers. At the core of our global infrastructure is a Region. An AWS Region is a physical location in the world where we have multiple Availability Zones. Availability Zones consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities. Unlike with other cloud providers, who often define a region as a single data center, having multiple Availability Zones allows you to operate production applications and databases that are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than would be possible from a single data center. AWS has more than 17 years of experience building its global infrastructure. And there’s no compression algorithm for experience, especially when it comes to scale, security, and performance.
Canadian customers of every size, including global brands like BlackBerry, CI Financial, Keyera, KOHO, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), Nutrien, Sun Life, TELUS, and startups like Good Chemistry and Cohere, and public sector organizations like the University of Calgary and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), are already running workloads on AWS. They choose AWS for its security, performance, flexibility, and global presence. AWS Global Infrastructure, including AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts, gives our customers the flexibility to deploy workloads close to their customers to minimize network latency.
For example, one customer that has benefited from AWS flexibility is Canadian decarbonization technology scale-up, BrainBox AI. BrainBox AI uses cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on AWS to help building owners around the world reduce HVAC emissions by up to 40 percent and energy consumption by up to 25 percent. The AWS Global Infrastructure allows their solution to manage with low latency hundreds of buildings in over 20 countries, 24-7.
Services available
You can deploy your workloads on any of the C5, M5, M5d, R5, C6g, C6gn, C6i, C6id, M6g, M6gd, M6i, M6id, R6d, R6i, R6id, I4i, I3en, T3, and T4g instance families. The new AWS Canada West (Calgary) has 65 AWS services available at launch. Here is the list, sorted by alphabetical order:
– Amazon API Gateway
– AWS AppConfig
– AWS Application Auto Scaling
– Amazon Aurora
– Aurora PostgreSQL
– AWS Batch
– AWS Certificate Manager
– AWS CloudFormation
– Amazon CloudFront
– AWS Cloud Map
– AWS CloudTrail
– Amazon CloudWatch
– Amazon CloudWatch Events
– Amazon CloudWatch Logs
– AWS CodeDeploy
– AWS Config
– AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
– AWS DataSync
– AWS Direct Connect
– Amazon DynamoDB
– Amazon ElastiCache
– Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
– Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
– Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
– Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
– Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
– Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
– Elastic Load Balancing
– Elastic Load Balancing – Gateway (GWLB)
– Elastic Load Balancing – Network (NLB)
– Amazon EMR
– Amazon EventBridge
– AWS Fargate
– AWS Health Dashboard
– AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
– Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
– Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
– AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
– AWS Lambda
– AWS Management Console
– AWS Marketplace
– Amazon OpenSearch Service
– AWS Organizations
– Amazon Redshift
– Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
– AWS Resource Access Manager
– Resource Groups
– Amazon Route 53
– AWS Secrets Manager
– AWS Security Hub
– AWS Security Token Service
– Service Quotas
– AWS Shield Standard
– Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
– Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
– Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
– Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF)
– AWS Site-to-Site VPN
– AWS Step Functions
– AWS Support API
– AWS Systems Manager
– AWS Trusted Advisor
– Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
– VM Import/Export
– AWS X-Ray.
AWS in Canada
We have been supporting our customers and partners with infrastructure in Canada since December 2016, when the first Canadian AWS Region, AWS Canada (Central), was launched. In the same year, we launched Amazon CloudFront locations in Toronto and Montreal to better serve your customers in the region. To date, there are ten CloudFront points of presence (PoPs) in Canada: five in Toronto, four in Montreal, and one in Vancouver. We also have engineering teams located in multiple cities in the country. From 2016–2021, AWS has invested over 2.57 billion CAD (1.9 billion USD) in Canada and plans to invest up to 24.8 billion CAD (18.3 billion USD) by 2037 in the two Regions. Using the input-output methodology and statistical tables provided by Statistics Canada, we estimate that the planned investment will add 43.02 billion CAD (31 billion USD) to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Canada and support more than 9,300 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in the Canadian economy.
In addition to providing our customers with world-class infrastructure benefits, Amazon is committed to reaching net zero carbon across its business by 2040 and is on a path to powering its operations with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025. In 2022, 90 percent of the electricity consumed by Amazon was attributable to renewable energy sources. Additionally, AWS has a goal to be water positive by 2030, returning more water to communities than it uses in its direct operations. Amazon has a total of four renewable energy projects in Canada: three south of Calgary and one close to Edmonton. According to BloombergNEF, Amazon is the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the country (and the world). These projects generate more than 2.3 million megawatt hours (MWH) of clean energy–enough to power 1.69 million Canadian homes.
Education is one of our top priorities as well. Since 2017, we have trained more than 200,000 Canadians on cloud computing skills through free and paid AWS Training and Certification programs. Learners of various skill levels, roles, and backgrounds can build knowledge and practical skills with more than 600 free online courses in up to 14 languages on AWS Skills Builder. Amazon is committed to providing 29 million people around the world with free cloud computing skills training by 2025.
Security
Customers around the world trust AWS to keep their data safe, and keeping their workloads secure and confidential is foundational to how we operate. Since the inception of AWS, we have relentlessly innovated on security, privacy tools, and practices to meet, and even exceed, our customers’ expectations. For example, you decide where to store your data and who can access it. Services such as AWS CloudTrail allow you to verify how and when data are accessed. Our virtualization technology, AWS Nitro System, has been designed to restrict any operator access to customer data. This means no person, or even service, from AWS can access data when it is being used in an EC2 instance. NCC Group, a leading cybersecurity consulting firm based in the United Kingdom, audited the Nitro architecture and affirmed our claims. Our core infrastructure is built to satisfy the security requirements of the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. In Canada, Neo Financial is a financial tech startup that uses the elasticity of the AWS Cloud to scale its business. They chose AWS in 2019 because we helped them to meet their regulatory requirements. They use EC2 for their core infrastructure, S3 for highly durable storage, Amazon GuardDuty to improve their security posture, and CloudFront to improve performance for their customers.
Performance
The AWS Global Infrastructure is built for performance, offering the lowest latency, lowest packet loss, and highest overall network quality. This is achieved with a fully redundant 400 GbE fiber network backbone, often providing many terabits of capacity between Regions. To help provide Canadian customers with even lower latency, we have announced two AWS Local Zones in Toronto and Vancouver. Performance is specially important when you are streaming your favorite TV show. Calgary-based Kidoodle.TV offers a streaming service for children. They have more than 100 million app downloads worldwide and more than 1 billion ad seconds for sale every 2 days. Using AWS, Kidoodle.TV was able to build the same service architecture that multibillion-dollar companies can deploy, which allowed them to seamlessly scale up from 400,000 monthly active users to…
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