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Amazon has planned to invest $3.04 billion to open new data centres in the northern region of Aragon, Spain in 2022. The company has announced that the cloud computing service unit of Amazon, i.e. Amazon Web Services, will invest the amount over a period of ten years.
Amazon Web Services has continued to exist in Spain since the year 2012. It has been focusing on strengthening and building more infrastructure to be able to host data for the customers who require it in the country.
According to Reuters, the investment includes capital expenditure, the construction of the centres, imports of equipment and operating expenses like the salaries of the 1,300 employees the company will recruit there.
In April, Israel had chosen Google and Amazon Web Services for more than a billion dollar project. The project requires the companies to provide cloud services to the public and military sectors.
The Finance Ministry said that Amazon and Google beat out Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM in the tender for the four phase project called ‘Nimbus’. It explained the main purpose of the project, which is to provide a comprehensive solution for the provision of cloud services to the government, the defence system, and other groups in the economy.
The companies will build up local cloud sites in Israel with an initial investment of ILS 4 billion. The four phases of the multi-year flagship project Nimbus will include the acquisition and construction of cloud infrastructure, formulating government policy for migrating to the cloud, integration and migration, control and optimization of cloud activity.