The new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will be available in late 2023 / early 2024, offering customers even lower latency, greater fault tolerance, and resilience for critical cloud workloads
A newly published AWS economic impact study estimates that AWS will invest over $ 17 billion (CA $ 21 billion) in Canada to build and operate its two infrastructure regions by 2037
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.Company announced plans to open an infrastructure region in Alberta, Canada in late 2023 / early 2024. The new AWS Canada West (Calgary) region will initially consist of three Availability Zones (AZs) and complement the existing AWS Canada (Central) region in Montreal, which also consists of three availability zones. Worldwide, AWS has 81 availability zones in 25 geographic regions and plans to roll out 27 additional availability zones and nine additional AWS regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. The future AWS Canada West (Calgary) region will have even more developers, startups and companies as well as authorities, Enable educational institutions and nonprofits to run their applications from data centers in Canada and serve end users. AWS also has aEconomic Impact Study (EIS) published, which estimates Company spending to build and operate the new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region and the existing AWS Canada (Central) Region Montreal will create more than 5,000 new jobs in local economies by 2037, with an estimated investment of over USD 17 billion (CA $ 21 billion). Both infrastructure regions are estimated to contribute an estimated USD 31.6 billion (CA $ 39 billion) to Canada’s GDP over the same period. For more information about AWS global infrastructure,
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“We are not only converting our digital basis, but are also moving the cloud into the foreground of our curriculum. With the AU PowerEDTM and AWS Academy Cloud Foundations programs, we are helping to train the next generation of cloud experts. “
“Our infrastructure in Canada has given our customers the power to transform the way businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies serve their stakeholders. With an additional AWS Region in Canada, customers will experience even lower latency for future solutions such as 5G-enabled applications and machine learning at the edge, and it will strengthen their ability to shape their regional infrastructure for even greater fault tolerance, resilience and availability ” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at AWS. “We look forward to creating world-class infrastructure to help companies reinvent the way they deliver customer solutions and drive economic growth.”
“This major investment by AWS shows yet again that Alberta will establish itself as a leader in digital technology and innovation. This multi-billion dollar data center project in our province illustrates the work Invest Alberta is doing to create jobs and diversify the economy, ”said Alberta’s Prime Minister Jason Kenney. “I look forward to working with AWS on this project and seeing how it will strengthen the IT and communications sector in Alberta.”
AWS Regions are made up of availability zones that house the infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. The availability zones are far enough apart to ensure customer business continuity, but close enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple availability zones. Each availability zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security. The zones are connected to one another via redundant networks with ultra-low latency. AWS customers, for whom high availability is a top priority, can develop their applications to operate them in different availability zones and thus achieve even greater resilience.
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Overall, AWS is estimated to invest more than $ 17 billion (CA $ 21 billion) in Canada to build and operate its two infrastructure regions by 2037. These AWS infrastructure investments are expected to add more than $ 31 billion (CA $ 39 billion) to Canada’s gross domestic product over the corresponding period. AWS plans to operate in the newly announced AWS Canada West (Calgary) region Invest more than $ 3 billion (CA $ 4 billion) by 2037. This includes capital expenditures for the construction of data centers, operating costs such as ongoing utility and plant costs as well as the purchase of goods and services from regional companies. EIS also expects the new AWS Region to bring direct and indirect economic benefits, such as new jobs and opportunities, to the data center supply chain and related sectors in Canada. Overall, investments in the new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region are estimated to create more than 950 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Canada.
Customers and AWS partners welcome the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Customers in Canada will join the millions of active customers using AWS each month in over 190 countries around the world. Canadian organizations such as Air Canada, Athabasca University, Benevity, BMO Financial Group, Canada Border Services Agency, D2L, Hootsuite, Humber College, Keyera, Neo Financial, NHL, Nutrien, lululemon athletica, Provincial Health Services Authority, Porter Airlines, Sun Life, Trimac Transportation and Vancouver General Hospital trust AWS to run their workloads to save costs, innovate, and accelerate time to market.
Sun Life is a leading global financial services company providing life, health and wealth solutions to private and corporate clients. “With our digital transformation, we are constantly innovating to help our customers achieve lifelong financial security and healthier lives,” said Laura Money, executive vice president and chief information officer, Sun Life. “With today’s announcement of a second AWS region in Canada, we are offering our customers who need to store their data in Canada an additional dimension of resilience.”
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The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is the backbone of British Columbia’s health system, ensuring that 5 million residents have access to a network of specialized health services and programs. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the PHSA provided COVID-19 test results and booked vaccinations. “Using Amazon Pinpoint, PHSA has sent millions of SMS and emails to residents of British Columbia with registration confirmations, booking notifications and vaccination reminders,” said Shannon Malovec, chief digital innovation officer at PHSA. “AWS enabled us to expand our communication in a very short time. We recognize the value of using the latest technology to serve our citizens,
Kidoodle.TV is a Calgary-based streaming service for children with more than 100 million downloads in 235 countries and regions worldwide. “I’ve been using AWS in the media and entertainment industry for so long that I can’t imagine a world without AWS. AWS is essential for us to release new features and products as quickly as possible, ”said Daniel Riddell, Chief Technology Officer at Kidoodle.TV. “Since the AWS cloud already existed when we founded the company, we were able to develop everything on site. We didn’t have to rely on huge overhead costs. We’ve been able to set up essentially the same service architecture that multibillion-dollar organizations can use. When COVID hit, our numbers skyrocketed.
Athabasca University (AU), the Canadian online university, is one of the world’s fastest growing online and free educational institutions with more than 43,000 students in 87 countries. The AU was the first Canadian university institution to migrate its entire digital operating infrastructure to AWS last year. “I use to say that without a solid foundation there is no scalable innovation. The conversion of AU to AWS in 2020 was the basis of our digital transformation strategy. This has created the infrastructure and cost savings that will enable us to make personalized learning an infinitely scalable reality for our students, ”said Jennifer Schaeffer, AU vice president of information technology and chief information officer. “We are not only converting our digital basis, but are also moving the cloud into the foreground of our curriculum. With the AU PowerEDTM and AWS Academy Cloud Foundations programs, we are helping to train the next generation of cloud experts. ”
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As one of Canada’s largest independent midstream companies, Keyera operates an integrated energy infrastructure business with numerous interconnected facilities. Keyera plays an important role in the processing, transportation and marketing of environmentally friendly natural gas and natural gas liquids that responsibly enrich modern life across North America. “Part of our sustainable and responsible energy supply is based on working with a strong partner for technological innovations. We understand the need for digital innovation so that we can offer our customers greater accuracy and reliability. In cooperation with AWS we developed a new application for machine learning, which proactively detects problems with consumption measurement. This enables us to respond in days instead of weeks. To date we have seen significant improvements in measurement for Keyera and our customers. Because of this success, we are expanding the deployment to two more systems, ”said Kelly Hill, Vice President of Information Technology at Keyera. “The cooperation with AWS enables us to build a digital innovation platform for our current and future requirements. AWS Professional Services is helping us transform our digital businesses with new applications and services like Amazon Rekognition for inventory tracking using Computer Vision and other services like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon QuickSight for business analytics and dashboarding in our metrics initiative. We look forward to continuing to work with AWS to drive our innovation process. ”
Developed with AWS, Neo Financial is a financial technology startup that leverages the elasticity of the AWS cloud to scale its business. “When we launched in 2019, we needed a cloud provider who could help us scale and meet the regulatory requirements that we as a financial services company have to meet. Our customers also have compliance requirements that require their data to be kept in Canada, ”said Kris Read, Co-Founder and CTO of Neo Financial. “Today we use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud for our central infrastructure and Amazon Simple Storage Service for highly persistent storage. We have also improved security with Amazon GuardDuty and performance for our customers with Amazon CloudFront. ”
The Canada-based partners are part of the AWS Partner Network (APN), which includes over 100,000 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS partners develop innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN provides business, technology, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. APN SIs, consulting partners, and ISVs help corporate and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deliver mission-critical applications, and provide a wide range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customer environments. AWS Canada partners include Accenture, Bell Canada, Deloitte, FuseForward, FX Innovation, Levio, OpsGuru, Rackspace, Slalom, Softchoice, Qalius, Quantiphi and Xerris. AWS ISVs in Canada, including Arctic Wolf, Benevity, CrowdStrike, D2L, Lightspeed POS, Salesforce, SmartSimple, Tidal Migrations, Vidyard, and Workday, are already using AWS to deploy their software to customers around the world and plan to launch their Canadian customers serviced from the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. A full list of APN members is available belowaws.amazon.com/partners available.
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Xerris Inc. is an advanced AWS partner based in Calgary, Alberta, specializing in delivering technology-driven solutions to businesses in the media and entertainment, energy, government and retail sectors. “We worked with AWS for several years, and in 2020 we expanded our business significantly – from a team of eight to well over 100,” said Jeremy Tooley, CEO of Xerris. “We’ve helped Calgary-area customers like StellarAlgo scale and optimize their data solutions so they can use machine learning models to gain valuable insights into fan behavior and engagement at live sports and entertainment events. We also work with Nutrien, Burnco, enerPlus and Aldo on a number of transformation and start-up projects. The AWS cloud offers a wide range of services that help our customers to act in an agile and scalable manner. We are excited about the continued growth and investments that AWS is making in Canada. ”
Slalom, a global strategy, technology and business transformation consultancy with more than 11,000 employees in 41 markets around the world, has the autonomy to act quickly and develop for its clients. “Together, Slalom and AWS have carried out more than 1,500 projects in the areas of migration, modernization, data analysis and general cloud strategies. This has resulted in Slalom investing and expanding operations in the AWS Canada (Central) Region since 2016, ”said Wayne Ingram, Country General Manager of Slalom Canada. “As a result of this partnership, Slalom Canada has grown to more than 750 employees in the past five years, 150 of them in Western Canada in Vancouver and Calgary. With Canadian customers like LoyaltyOne ,TC Energy and many others are particularly pleased about the growing interest and need for cloud strategies and look forward to even more innovation in this country. ”
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