AWS Announces Israel Data Centers To Aid Country's Digital Transformation

• Amazon.com Inc’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) voiced its plans to introduce an infrastructure region in Israel in the first half of 2023.

• The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region will enable even more developers, startups, enterprises, government, education, and non-profits to run their applications and serve end-users from data centers located in Israel.

• Additionally, the government of Israel chose AWS as its primary cloud provider under the “Nimbus” contract for government ministries and subsidiaries.

• The Nimbus framework will provide cloud services to Israeli government ministries to accelerate digital transformation.

• Previously Israel inked a deal with AWS and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for its public sector and military, Reuters reported.

• AWS and Google won a tender in April for the four-phase project “Nimbus.”

• Price action: AMZN shares traded higher by 0.17% at $3,355.50 in the premarket session on the last check Friday.

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