Amazon Web Services announced plans to launch a new cloud region in Israel after it and rival Google were selected to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military under the $1.2 billion “Nimbus” project.
The new AWS data centers — slated to open in the first half of 2023 — and the government contract are expected to be a big boost for AWS Partner Network businesses operating in the country and the flourishing Israeli tech ecosystem, according to Eran Gil, CEO of AllCloud, a cloud professional services company, AWS Premier Consulting Partner and Audited MSP Partner.
Now based in Denver, AllCloud originated in Israel and maintains a large office in Tel Aviv with nearly 150 employees as one of AWS’ leading partners there.
“It’s phenomenal news,” Gil said, noting an in-country cloud region will help its work with companies in regulated industries, such as current customer Bank Leumi, an Israeli bank. “In regulated industries like that, it will obviously benefit, when they require data to reside in the country. It also helps with serving the government entities. We are a very active partner in the government entities, both with our Salesforce practice and now with AWS, and we look forward to actually being able to do a lot more now that there’ll be a data center within the next 18 months. I think it will provide the entire ecosystem a big boost.”
The three-zone AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) cloud region will provide lower latency…
