EU Business News Q4 2018

18 EU BUSINESS NEWS / Q3 2018 , Global Giant Amazon Web Services to Open Data Centers in Italy NewAWS Infrastructure Regionwill arrive in early 2020, enabling customers to run workloads and store data in Italy and serve end-users with even lower latency. Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company has just announced that it will open an infrastructure region in Italy in early 2020. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will comprise of three Availability Zones and will be AWS’s sixth region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and Sweden (launching in late 2018). Currently, AWS provides 57 Availability Zones across 19 geographic regions globally, with another 12 Availability Zones across four regions coming online between the end of 2018 and the first half of 2020 in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, South Africa, and Sweden. “For thousands of years, Italians have been the architects of some of the most innovative and ground-breaking technical and artistic feats,” said Andy Jassy, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services. “We’ve been amazed with how Italian companies have invented on top of AWS thus far, but believe an AWS Region in Italy makes it even easier for Italian companies and government organizations to reinvent and evolve customer and citizen experiences for many decades to come.” The addition of the AWS Europe (Milan) Region will enable organizations to provide lower latency to end users in Italy. Local AWS customers with data residency requirements will be able to store their content in the country, with the assurance that they retain complete control over the location of their data, while customers building applications that comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have access to another secure AWS infrastructure region in the European Union (EU) that meets the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection. Additionally, Italian organizations from start-ups to enterprise and the public sector will have infrastructure in their country to leverage advanced technologies such as analytics, artificial Intelligence, database, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, mobile services, serverless, and more to drive innovation. Customers and APN Partners welcome the news of the AWS Europe (Milan) Region Millions of active customers are using AWS each month in over 190 countries around the world, including hundreds of thousands of customers in Europe, and many in Italy. Organizations moving their mission-critical workloads to AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market, include Italian enterprise customers such as Decysion, Docebo, Eataly, Edizioni Conde Nast, ENEL, Ferrero, GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, Imperia & Monferrina, Lamborghini, Mediaset, Navionics, Pirelli, Pixartprinting, SEAT Pagine Gialle, Tagetik Software, and Vodafone Italy. Hot startups such as Beintoo, brumbrum, DoveConviene, Ennova, FattureinCloud, Musement, Musixmatch, Prima Assicurazioni, Satispay, SixthContinent, Spreaker, and Wyscout have built their businesses on top of AWS, enabling them to scale rapidly and expand their geographic reach in minutes. In the Italian public sector, organizations using AWS to transform the services they deliver to the citizens of the country include A2A Smart City, City of Cagliari, Corte dei Conti, Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi, Madisoft, National Institute for Astrophysics, National Institute of Molecular Genetics, Pegaso Online University, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico Torino, Regione Autonoma Sardegna, UniNettuno, and Università degli Studi di Cagliari. ENEL, one of the leading utility providers in the world, is using AWS cloud technology to support a full digital transformation program inside their organization and to provide a better service to their energy customers around the world. Carlo Bozzoli, Global Chief Information Officer at ENEL, said of the new AWS Europe (Milan) Region, “We welcome the news of an AWS Region coming to Italy. In 2015, we embarked on a digital transformation journey to completely overhaul how we operate as an organization. Once we selected AWS as our cloud provider, we migrated workloads from over 10,000 on-premises servers onto AWS and at the end of this year we will be 100 percent in the cloud. Moving to AWS has reduced the time to provision resources from weeks to days, which has allowed us to speed up innovation, while significantly driving down costs.” Another of Italy’s leading enterprises using AWS to support innovation is Pirelli, one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers. Pirelli leverages AWS to increase driver safety and car efficiency by building applications such as Cyber Car and Cyber Fleet, which takes data from sensors embedded in tires and presents it on