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AWS announces plans to open data
centres in Spain
institutions, public administrations and
government agencies across Spain, and
with this AWS infrastructure region, we
look forward to helping accelerate this
transformation,” said Peter DeSantis, Vice
President of Global Infrastructure and
Customer Support, Amazon Web Services.
“Opening an AWS Region in Spain will drive
more technology jobs and businesses,
boosting the local economy, while enabling
organisations across all industries to lower
costs, increase security and improve agility.
We’re excited to have AWS contribute to the
future growth of Spain.”
Amazon Web Services has announced it will
open an infrastructure region in Spain
T
he new AWS Europe (Spain) Region will
consist of three Availability Zones at launch
and will be AWS’s seventh region in Europe,
joining existing regions in Dublin, Frankfurt,
London, Paris, Stockholm and the upcoming
Milan region launching in early 2020. The
Spain Region is expected to open late 2022
or early 2023. Currently, AWS provides 69
Availability Zones across 22 infrastructure
regions worldwide. With this announcement,
AWS has now announced plans for 13 more
Availability Zones and four more regions in
Indonesia, Italy, South Africa and Spain.
“Cloud computing is already powering
innovation within businesses, educational
AWS’s announcement was welcomed by
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, who
described it as ‘great news’ for the country.
“This investment from AWS will allow Spain
to fully adapt to the Digital Transformation
and develop as an international centre of
innovation and technology,” he said.
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Canary Wharf Group and Cisco announce first
ever commercial deployment of OpenRoaming
C
anary Wharf Group, owner of one of
the largest business centres in Europe,
and Cisco, have announced the world’s
first commercial trial deployment of
OpenRoaming.
Combining the convenience of mobile
roaming with Wi-Fi 6 connectivity,
OpenRoaming allows devices to connect
automatically to Wi-Fi and seamlessly roam
from one hotspot to another without the
need for the user to log in. The joint initiative
will also provide up to four times faster
wireless speeds by deploying Cisco Wi-Fi
6 access points, along with sophisticated
location-based analytics to allow its clients to
build unique services for their customers.
The City of London contributes more than
22% of the UK’s total Gross Domestic
Product (GDP). Having overseen the largest
urban regeneration project ever undertaken
in Europe, in London Docklands, Canary
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Wharf Group is at the heart of the capital’s
economy with 17 million square feet of high-
quality commercial office and retail space.
The estate has a working population of
120,000 people with an additional 40,000
visitors daily on weekdays and 130,000
visitors over the weekend. There are up to
4,250 homes in development, in a state-
of-the-art ‘smart’ environment across the
estate. Over the last six years, Canary Wharf
Group has provided first-class infrastructure
to over 200 startups based in its renowned
technology hub, Level39. Wood Wharf, a 5
million square foot regeneration project on
the estate, will provide the benefits of Wi-Fi
6 connectivity to its fast-growth businesses
and residents when it opens its doors to
tenants in 2020. The latest wireless standard
delivers dramatically faster speeds, improved
capacity, along with lower latency and
longer battery life.
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