Chile’s President José Antonio Kast speaks at the November 11, 2026 launch of AWS’s South America (Chile) Region. Photo: Amazon Web Services / About Amazon (cropped and resized).
Amazon Web Services has opened its first Chile cloud infrastructure region to a select group of early-access customers, backed by a planned investment of more than $4 billion. General availability has not begun: the company expects the region to become broadly available by the end of 2026.
The November 11 opening gives Chile-based customers a new option to store and process data locally. AWS said the South America (Chile) Region is its third infrastructure region in Latin America, joining São Paulo and Mexico.
In its announcement, Amazon estimated that the investment would contribute more than $7.5 billion to Chile’s gross domestic product and support an average of 4,100 full-time-equivalent jobs annually. Those are company projections, not a count of jobs already created or economic output already delivered. The investment covers development and operation of the infrastructure.
Local data storage and three availability zones
The region has three physically separate availability zones, each with independent power, cooling and connectivity. AWS regions group data centers so customers can run applications across separate facilities rather than depend on a single site.
AWS said the Chile region will offer core computing, storage, networking and database services at general launch. Its Bedrock and SageMaker AI services are expected within the first year of launch, rather than all being available from the outset.
Early customers include BancoEstado de Chile, BTG, Cencosud, Consorcio, Itaú and Ripley, according to the company. Local infrastructure can help customers address data-residency requirements and reduce response times for users in Chile and neighboring markets, AWS said.
Chile marks the start of operations
Chile’s government confirmed that President José Antonio Kast attended the November 11 opening ceremony at AWS’s offices in Providencia. The government described the project as an expansion of the country’s capacity to process data and use cloud services.
AWS also said it has trained more than 200,000 people in Chile in cloud skills since 2017 and aims to reach 300,000 learners by 2028. That training target is separate from its projected annual jobs figure.
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