Now Open - South America (Sao Paulo) Region - EC2, S3, and Much More

With the paint barely dry on our US West (Oregon) Region, we are now ready to expand again. This time we are going South of the Equator, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. With the opening of this new Region, AWS customers in South and Central America can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services.

New Region
The new South America (Sao Paulo) Region supports the following services:

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and related services (Elastic Block Store, Virtual Private Cloud, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and VM Import).
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
• Amazon SimpleDB.
• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
• AWS CloudFormation.
• Amazon CloudWatch.

We already have an Edge Location for Route 53 and CloudFront in Sao Paulo.

The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio includes the new Region in the dropdown menu. You will need to restart Visual Studio to refresh the menu.

This is our eighth Region, and our first in South America (see the complete AWS Global Infrastructure Map for more information). You can see the full list in the Region menu of the AWS Management Console:

You can launch EC2 instances or store data in the new Region by simply making the appropriate selection from the menu.

New Resources
Portions of the AWS web site are now available in Portuguese. You can switch languages using the menu in the top right:

We now have an AWS team (sales, marketing, and evangelism to start) in Brazil. Our newest AWS evangelist, Jose Papo, is based in Sao Paulo. He will be writing new editions of the AWS Blog in Portuguese and Spanish.

Customers
We already have some great customers in Brazil. Here's a sampling:

• Peixe Urbano is the leading online discount coupon site in Brazil. They launched on AWS and have scaled to a top 50 site with no capital expenditure.
• Gol Airlines (one of the largest in Brazil) uses AWS to provide in-flight wireless service to customers.
• The R7 news portal is one of the most popular sites in Brazil. The site makes use of CloudFront, S3, and an auto-scaled array of EC2 instances.
• Orama is a financial institution with a mission of providing better access to investments for all Brazilians. They run the majority of their customer relationship systems on AWS.
• Itaú Cultural is a non-profit cultural institute. The institute's IT department is now hosting new projects on AWS.
• Casa & Video is one of Brazil's largest providers of electronics and home products. They have turned to AWS to handle seasonal spikes in traffic.

Solution Providers
Our ISV and System Integrator partner ecosystem in Brazil includes global companies such as Accenture, Deloitte, and Infor along with local favorites Dedalus and CI&T.

Jeff;

Comments

[Daniel]

Boa! Obrigado! :) We already support the new zone in BitNami (http://bitnami.org/) so you can take some of our images for a spin. As a bonus, we are improving some of the most popular ones such as WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal o include Brasilian Portuguese language support out of the box.

[twitter.com/cloudberryman]

The new version of CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 comes with the full support for the new South America (Sao Paolo) region. http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2011/12/cloudberry-explorer-announcing-aws-sao.html

[TopHostingProviders]

I'm glad Amazon finally expanded into new regions so keep it ...

[Ricardo Bánffy]

This is seriously cool (but not a surprise by any stretch - we all expected it by any moment now). Will congratulate you in person later today at the AWS Summit, in a couple hours.

See you there.

[Jaime]

This is certainly good news for Brazil. :)

On a side note, I'm not quite sure this new point of presence will be useful for other South American countries, as there almost none (if any) neutral Internex Exchange points in South America to peer networks between ISPs of South American countries.

For instance, someone from Argentina could get lower latency from one of the US regions, despite the fact it is a neighbor country. As far as I know, most IP traffic must go all the way up to United States (usually Miami) and then all the way down if you want to reach a Brazilian IP. So, if you are in Argentina (or Chile, or Uruguay, etc), your latency won't be better if you try to reach the Sao Paulo region. Best case scenario, you will end up with similar latencies compared to any of the US regions.

However, I might be wrong and my info could not be up to date, so I'll be happy if you prove me wrong. :)

[Conrado]

Very, very cool and very welcome news.

However, we have just signed up for reserved instances last month on a U.S. Region (in that time, it was the best region available for us).

Is any kind of plan to allow current customers to change Regions without having to pay the whole reserved instance in the new region?

[Fred]

CloudyScripts https://cloudyscripts.com, which is a collaborative Project from SecludIT that provides a collection of tools to manage and automate Cloud Infrastructure, also supports USA-East-1 (Sao Paulo) Region.

ElasticDetector https://elastic-detector.secludit.com (Security Solution) supports SA-East-1 Sao Paulo as well.

For the guys who wtanted to find the new PVGRUB AKI IDs for this new region, here is a command line (on a linux box):
[fred@secludit-debian]# ./bin/ec2-describe-images -K pk-XXX.pem -C cert-XXX.pem --region sa-east-1 -a | grep pv-grub

[Guilherme Magalhães]

Wow, nice initiative. Great to know more people can join AWS. Hope you keep expanding from now. Brazil thank you all, Amazon!

[Christopher]

With more regions being added it would be nice if the dashboard (or an additional dashboard) would show an overview of resources used in all regions.

You are using the following Amazon EC2 resources in the US West (Oregon) region:
and a
You are using the following Amazon EC2 resources all regions:

or a new tab with resources for all services in all regions
You are using the following Amazon resources in all regions:

4 EC2 instances in us-east1
1 RDS instance in us-west2
10 S3 buckets in eu-west2
etc...

[Antmaper Antonio]

A Tangível Tecnologia deseja boas vindas a AWS ao Brasil. Esperamos que o serviço tenha a mesma qualidade dos Estados Unidos e que ajudar a nivelar por alto outros servidores do Brasil.

[Thomas]

http://scalarium.com supports the new Sao Paulo region and says pode tentar se quiser

Regards,
Thomas