The long-awaited AWS Melbourne region has arrived, signalling the launch of Australia’s second AWS infrastructure region.
But, what does this mean for you and your business? This post will explore the benefits the AWS Melbourne region can provide for organisations, including:
- Lower latency
- Data sovereignty
- Improved disaster recovery
- Data bunkering
- Improved reliability
- Compliance
- Cost optimisation
- Multi-region scalability
- Resilience
- Access to a wide range of services
Lower latency
The Melbourne region offers a localised presence for businesses, enabling low latency and high-speed connections for customers, making it ideal for running applications and services with quick response times. This helps improve the overall performance of their applications, resulting in an improved user experience.
Data sovereignty
With data privacy regulations becoming increasingly strict, the Melbourne region provides a secure and reliable option for Australian businesses to store and process their data within their own country or state, ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations.
Disaster recovery
The region provides businesses with access to a secondary site, allowing them to build improved disaster recovery solutions to minimise downtime and maintain business continuity in the event of a regional outage.
Data bunkering
Data bunkering, the process of storing sensitive or critical data in a separate region, helps organisations meet regulatory requirements by ensuring its resistance to disasters or other threats in an isolated, secure and controlled environment, away from the business.
Reliability
The Melbourne region provides Australian businesses with access to a secondary highly available and resilient infrastructure, ensuring applications and services are available and responsive even in the event of a disaster.
Compliance
The Melbourne region is compliant with varied regulatory requirements, including the Australian Privacy Act and the Protection of Critical Infrastructure Act, ensuring customer data is protected and secure. The region is also compliant with various industry standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 1 and SOC 2, which makes it a suitable option for organisations with strict security and privacy requirements.
Cost optimisation
For some customers, running applications and services in the Melbourne region can result in reduced costs due to lower latency and lower data transfer costs.
Multi-region scalability
The Melbourne region offers Australian customers the ability to easily scale their applications and services across regions as needed, allowing them to meet changing customer needs and market demands.
Resilience
The new region provides businesses with an infrastructure which is designed for high availability and disaster recovery, providing customers with the ability to run their applications with minimal downtime and mitigate risk of disruptions.
Wide range of services
In addition to Sydney, the Melbourne region provides access to a wide range of additional AWS services, including computing, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning, IoT, and more, making it easy for businesses to build and run their applications in the cloud.
In summary, the AWS Melbourne region offers Melbourne-based businesses a range of benefits, including improved performance, cost-effective, low latency, secure, reliable platform and access to a wide range of services. This allows the customers to focus on their core business activities and take advantage of the latest technology, achieve their business goals and stay ahead in the ever-evolving digital landscape.
As an Advanced AWS consulting partner and official launch partner for the Melbourne region, Cevo is committed to helping AWS customers make informed decisions on how best to operate their businesses in the cloud. With the launch of a second AWS region in Australia we are excited to help share our expertise in how best to take advantage of the two regions. For more information, visit https://aws.amazon.com/local/australia/ or get in touch.
