AWS Opens Chile Cloud Region To Select Customers
Amazon Web Services says its first cloud region in Chile is operating for select customers, with wider access expected by the end of 2026.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in a company blog post on 11th November that it had opened its first cloud region in Chile to select customers. The company expects general availability by the end of 2026. AWS named BancoEstado, Cencosud and BTG among the early customers. Its May 2025 press release already listed BancoEstado and Cencosud as AWS customers in Chile. They now have the option of running applications on AWS infrastructure in the country. It is the company’s third region in Latin America, after São Paulo and central Mexico.
Chile’s government said President José Antonio Kast attended the commissioning ceremony at AWS’s offices in Providencia. The government said the region would allow customers to store and process data in the country. It spans three physically separate groups of data centres, known as availability zones, each with its own power, cooling and connectivity. The separation is designed to help keep services running if one zone has a problem.
AWS said core cloud services for computing, storage, networking and databases will be available at launch. The announcement names Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI as two of the artificial intelligence services that it expects to add in the first year after the region opens.
The Investment Plan Dates To 2025
Amazon reiterated that it plans to invest more than $4 billion to support the Chile region. Its 7th May 2025 press release already gave that figure and set a target of opening by the end of 2026. InvestChile’s account of the 2025 event puts the spending over 15 years. Amazon said the plan covered building, connecting, running and maintaining the data centres.
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AWS had already opened a facility in Santiago in 2023, offering selected computing, storage and other services nearer to local users. The company’s 2025 press release identified that facility as a Local Zone. The new region gives Chile its own group of separate zones for customers who need to run their applications and keep their data in the country.
