Amazon Web Services (AWS), a unit of Amazon.com, expects sustained growth in Chile and the rest of Latin America in coming years despite ongoing political turmoil, a senior executive told Reuters.
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"In the future we plan to invest more and expand our physical presence in Chile, to the extent that customers demand it and need it to meet their needs," Vice President for Latin America Jaime Valles said, declining to comment on any investment figure.
AWS's cloud platform offers everything from storage, robotics, artificial intelligence and more than 200 services.
The company opened secure connections to the global AWS network, known as Edge locations, in Argentina and Chile last year in addition to existing locations in Brazil and Colombia. From 2022 on, AWS plans to open 30 new "AWS Local Zones" that include infrastructure, storage and database services in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil.
On Wednesday the company said it started the process to obtain an environmental permit needed to build a $205 million data center in Chile's capital.
"In particular in Latin America, we are working very closely with retail and banking companies," Valles said.
