New AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region expands cloud
pioneer’s global footprint and enables Nordic customers to run
applications and store their content in data centers in Sweden
Tens of thousands of customers and APN partners
across the Nordics – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
– are actively using AWS, including Aktia Bank, Arriva, ASSA ABLOY,
Bambora, Bonnier, Cargotec, Den Norske Bank, Finnair, Finnish Rail,
Fortum, Husqvarna, Icelandair, IKEA, iZettle, LEO Innovation Lab,
Nokia, Rovio, Scania, Schibsted, SOK, Stockmann Oyj, Supercell,
Telenor, Telia, Tine SA, TopDanmark, Unibet, Vivino, Volvo,
Wärtsilä, and many more
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Europe
(Stockholm) Region. With this launch, AWS now provides 60
Availability Zones across 20 infrastructure regions globally, with
another 12 Availability Zones and four regions in Bahrain, Hong
Kong SAR, Italy, and South Africa all coming online by the first
half of 2020. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is AWS’s fifth in
Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, and
the UK. Tens of thousands of customers across the Nordics –
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – already use AWS.
Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as
government, education, and non-profit organizations can leverage
the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region to run their applications in
Sweden, serve end-users across the Nordics with lower latency, and
leverage advanced technologies such as analytics, database, mobile
services, serverless, and more, to drive innovation. Customers can
get started today at: https://aws.amazon.com/local/nordics/
“Since the early days of AWS, Nordic organizations have been
using AWS’s cloud technologies to help reinvent entire industries,
such as Supercell and Rovio in gaming, Scania and Volvo in
automotive, and Nokia and Telenor in telecommunications,” said Andy
Jassy, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services. “Tens of
thousands of Nordic customers have been using AWS from regions
around the world, but many have shared that they also wanted an AWS
Region in the Nordics so they can easily operate their most
latency-sensitive workloads for end-users in the Nordics while
meeting any data sovereignty requirements. We’re excited to deliver
our AWS Stockholm Region today to meet these customer
requests.”
The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region offers three Availability
Zones at launch. AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones,
which are technology infrastructure in separate and distinct
geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce
the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near
enough to provide low latency for high availability applications.
Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical
security and are connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency
networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design
their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve
even greater fault-tolerance. Additionally, local AWS customers
with data residency requirements can now store their content in
Sweden with the assurance that their content will not move without
consent, while customers building applications that comply with the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now have access to
another secure AWS infrastructure region in the European Union (EU)
that meets the highest levels of security, compliance, and data
protection.
Customers and APN Partners welcome the new AWS Europe
(Stockholm) Region
Millions of active customers are using AWS each month in over
190 countries around the world, including hundreds of thousands of
customers in Europe, and tens of thousands of customers in the
Nordics. Organizations across the Nordics are moving their
mission-critical workloads to AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate
innovation, and speed-up time-to-market, including enterprise
customers such as Aktia Bank, Arriva, ASSA ABLOY, Bonnier, Basware,
Cargotec, Den Norske Bank, F-Secure, Finnair, Fortum, Gelato,
Husqvarna, Icelandair, IKEA, Modern Times Group, Nokia, Scania,
Schibsted, SOK, Stockmann Oyj, Telenor Connexion, Telia, Tine SA,
TopDanmark, Unibet, Visma, Volvo Group Connected Solutions,
Wireless Car, Wärtsilä, and XXL. AWS is also an enabler for the
Nordics’ most successful startups and gaming companies such as
Bambora, Evolution Gaming, Hemnet, iZettle, KRY, LEO Innovation
Lab, Lingit, Lunar Way, Mapillary, Mathem, Mojang, Paradox
Interactive, Quinyx, Rovio, Supercell, Tidal, Trustpilot, Tink, and
Vivino. Public sector customers, such as VR (Finnish Rail), the
government-owned railway in Finland, and Ambita, owned by the
Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry and Norway’s largest
portal for property data, are also moving the majority of their
on-premises applications to AWS to take advantage of the increased
reliability and security to deliver a better service to
citizens.
Volvo Group Connected Solutions, headquartered in Gothenburg,
Sweden, is responsible for developing and delivering connected
solutions within the Volvo Group – one of the world’s leading
manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment, and marine
and industrial engines. The Volvo Group employs approximately
100,000 people, has production facilities in 18 countries, and
sells its products in more than 190 nations. AWS is the preferred
cloud provider for Volvo Group Connected Solutions, allowing them
to connect more than 800,000 assets all over the world, including
trucks, busses, and construction equipment. “AWS has transformed
how we run as a business, helping us move to a micro service
architecture and run infrastructure as code, which has increased
automation across the organization,” said Stefan Berggren, VP of
Technology at Volvo Group Connected Solutions. “Since moving the
development of our applications to AWS, we have increased agility
and speed and reduced the amount of time it takes to go from idea
to experimentation from weeks to minutes. As you can imagine,
latency is also vital when connecting vehicles and delivering a
broad range of connected services to our customers. We look forward
to using the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region because it will
bring our services even closer to our customers.”
Fortum is a leading power and utilities provider, headquartered
in Finland, with more than 2.5 million customers, 9,000 employees,
and operates over 150 power plants across 10 countries. Together
with thousands of customers, Fortum has built a one-megawatt
Virtual Battery, the largest in the Nordics, which is fully
operated on top of AWS. The Virtual Battery aggregates and controls
usage of energy assets, like household water heaters and electric
vehicles, helping Fortum to better balance energy usage across the
grid. “With the elasticity and almost infinite storage capacity
that AWS delivers, we are able to analyze more data than the entire
Finnish smart metering infrastructure combined, resulting in better
understanding how our customers use electricity,” said Per Edoff,
Chief Digital Officer, Fortum. “Collecting this data on AWS gives
us the ability to efficiently address electricity demand and
production, helping us reduce costs, ultimately delivering these
savings back to our customers in the form of lower energy bills.
Additionally, we have been using the Amazon Elasticsearch Service
to securely build a data lake. Using machine learning to get more
insights from our data, we will be able to extract better
understanding of energy usage, helping our customers to save money
and helping us to improve our impact on the environment through
more advanced scheduling of when we turn our power plants on and
off. Now that the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open we
expect to see this innovation accelerate.”
Financial services customers throughout the Nordics also entrust
AWS with mission-critical workloads. Norway’s largest financial
services group, Den Norske Bank (DnB), with over three million
customers, has chosen AWS as its primary cloud provider, dedicating
an entire floor at their Bergen headquarters to work on AWS
projects to modernize the banking experience. “We welcome the
opening of the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. We really like
the benefits of being able to innovate within the cloud because it
allows us to scale at a faster pace, while enjoying the security,
reliability, and agility that AWS provides,” said Alf Otterstad,
Chief Information Officer at DnB. “AWS has been a strategic partner
for us and we already have more than 30 development projects in the
works dedicated to delivering a better banking experience to
customers. One example is how, using AWS, we introduced a chatbot
to provide better service to our more than three million customers.
Today, 50 percent of all incoming queries are automatically handled
by the chatbot, which is managing an average of 30,000
conversations a week. This solution has reduced our costs and given
us a stable and scalable solution for customer service, which
wouldn’t have been possible without AWS.”
Public sector customer VR (Finnish Rail) is the government-owned
railway company in Finland, operating over 250 long distance and
800 commuter rail services every day, across nearly 6,000
kilometers of track. VR is moving its website and all travel
applications from its on-premises infrastructure to AWS by the end
of 2019, a journey that is already one-third complete. “Using AWS,
gives us access to a vast number of features and services, across
compute, storage, artificial intelligence, and machine learning,
enabling our developers to quickly experiment, develop, test, and
deliver personalized services for each one of our customers,” said
Annika Nordbo, Data and Analyst Manager at Finnish Rail. “With AWS
technologies we have accelerated the speed in which we can
experiment and deliver services, reducing the time it takes to get
new features into the hands of travelers from days to minutes. This
time efficiency has also turned into cost efficiency, as we have
reduced costs by more than 50 percent since moving to AWS in 2017.
We are looking forward to utilizing the new AWS Region in Stockholm
to further improve our customers’ travel experiences by bringing
our applications and workloads closer to end users.”
Many Nordic startups are using AWS to rapidly scale, including
KRY, which is revolutionizing healthcare by enabling doctors and
psychologists to conduct video consultations through users’ smart
phones. KRY was able to use the security and compliance
capabilities that AWS provides to customers to quickly launch their
business, and by using machine learning tools on AWS, they are able
to better identify patients’ conditions and connect them to the
doctor with the right expertise. “We needed a cloud provider that
enabled us to support our rapid expansion so we went all-in on
AWS,” said Johannes Schildt, CEO of KRY. “With over 500,000
registered users seeking care, we need the security, reliability,
and healthcare compliant services that AWS provides. AWS also helps
us to provide better care to our end users. Using AWS Lambda for
rapid integration of data and Amazon Redshift for scalable data
transformation, we developed and launched a forecasting tool in
less than a month. The forecasting tool uses historical customer
information and can predict patient demand down to the hour,
enabling us to appropriately staff our clinics, and improve
operations by at least 20 percent.”
Another startup using AWS to securely and reliably provide
confidential services to end users across the Nordics is Danish
financial services company, Lunar Way. Lunar Way provides a free
mobile banking app which lets users open a bank account, receive a
debit card, get real-time transaction feeds of their spending, view
transactions by shopping category or retailer, and helps people
better set savings goals and pay bills. “Three years ago we set out
to change the way people relied on financial institutions, working
to meet the need of a generation that has grown up with everything
on their mobile – being all-in on AWS allowed us to do that,” said
Ken Villum Klausen, CEO of Lunar Way. “With AWS we have been able
to quickly scale up or down to meet customer demand, and we have
seen a growth rate of 15 to 20 percent month over month. AWS
delivers unrivaled security and hardware that is compliant out of
the box, which has been paramount for us to quickly launch our
business and provide our customers with peace of mind that their
finances will be secure with our app. Having an AWS Region in the
Nordics will open up the opportunity for us to expand further into
Sweden and continue to maintain the highest levels of security for
our regulated workloads.”
AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners welcomed the arrival of the
AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. The APN includes tens of thousands
of Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Systems Integrators (SI)
around the world with APN participation among Nordic-based entities
growing significantly over the past 12 months. APN Partners build
innovative solutions and services on AWS and the APN helps by
providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support.
SI Consulting Partners supporting enterprise and public sector
customers in the Nordics to migrate to AWS include Accenture, Atos,
Basefarm, Capgemini, CloudPartners, Crayon Group, Cybercom,
Deloitte, Digia, DXC, Eficode, Enfo Group, Evry, GoFore, Jayway,
Nordcloud, Pearl Consulting, Proact IT Group, Solita, Telia
Inmics-Nebula, Tieto, Webscale, Webstep, Wipro, and many others.
AWS ISVs in the Nordics including Basware, eBuilder, F-Secure,
Queue-it, Xstream, and many others, are already using AWS to
deliver their software to customers around the world and will serve
their Nordic customers from the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region at
launch. Customers can also easily find, trial, deploy, and buy
software solutions for AWS on the AWS Marketplace. For the full
list of the members of the AWS Partner Network, please visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/partners/.
Cybercom, a longtime AWS consulting partner, also welcomed the
opening of the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Cybercom is
dramatically increasing their focus on AWS, launching an AWS
Business Group and growing the number of certified AWS consultants
from 80 to 500 in the next three years. “We have already seen a
rapid increase of customers moving critical workloads to AWS and an
AWS Region located in Sweden will only accelerate this growth,”
said Niklas Flyborg, CEO of Cybercom in Sweden. “For us, an AWS
Region in the Nordics is a game-changer. AWS is our preferred cloud
provider and we have already closed down our own data center and
moved most of our applications onto the AWS Cloud. Now with an AWS
Region on Swedish soil, we don’t see the need for any Swedish
companies to own and operate their own server hardware.”
Investing in the Future of the Nordics
As a company, AWS is committed to making a positive impact in
the communities where its employees live and work. To support this
commitment, AWS is launching an AWS Hackathon for Good program in
the Nordics. With this program, AWS will work with organizations
across the Nordics to identify societal issues where technology can
provide solutions, and organize hackathons in their favor. The
first AWS Hackathon for Good will happen in the first half of 2019
and AWS will collaborate with the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation
during their Nordic Coastal Cleanup Day. Last year, over 40,000
people in Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
helped clean up the coasts, removing nearly 2,000 kilograms of
litter. AWS will invite developers across the Nordics for a 24-hour
hackathon event where they will be able to connect and collaborate
with peers, work on real challenges for Keep Sweden Tidy, get
expert help from AWS solution architects, and utilize the broad
scope of services and features offered by the AWS Europe
(Stockholm) Region, with the aim of providing Keep Sweden Tidy and
the Nordic Coastal Cleanup Day with technology solutions that could
improve litter removal along the Nordic coastlines. AWS Hackathon
for Good contributions will be graded by AWS and will look at the
quality of implementation, the technological choices, and overall
execution towards a solution. The winning contribution will get
support in terms of AWS technical expertise and AWS Cloud Credits
to help implement the solution for Keep Sweden Tidy. More
information about the AWS Hackathon for Good and the Nordic Coastal
Cleanup Day will be available closer to the event, through the AWS
website.
To help grow the next generation of Nordic enterprises, AWS
supports startups in cities across the Nordics. In 2013, AWS
launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic
startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts as
well as web-based training, self-paced labs, customer support,
third-party offers, and up to $100,000 in AWS Cloud Credits – all
at no charge. In 2018, AWS launched the first Pop-Up Loft in
Stockholm, offering a co-working space and access to technology and
business experts to support the growth of Nordic startups. This is
in addition to the work that AWS already does with the Venture
Capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help
startups grow in the cloud. Across the Nordics, AWS works with
Atomico, Creandum, EQT Ventures Nordic Makers, Northzone, and SUP46
in order to support the rapid growth of their portfolio
companies.
AWS is also continuing to invest in the upskilling of local
developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in the
Nordics through programs such as AWS Academy and AWS Educate. For
students, the AWS Educate program provides access to AWS services
and content designed to build knowledge and skills in cloud
computing. Dozens of universities and business schools in the
Nordics already participating in the program include Swedish
institutions Abb Industrigymnasium, Berzeliusskolan, Blekinge
Tekniska H�gskola, EC Utbildning Malm�, and J�nkoping University;
Denmark institutions AARHUS Tech, Mercantec, Roskilde University,
and Technical University of Denmark; Finland institutions Åbo
Akademi University, Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK),
JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Tampere University of Applied
Sciences, and University of Helsinki; and Norway institutions
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Oslo Metropolitan
University, and the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of
Norway. Another program for higher education institutes is AWS
Academy, which provides AWS-authorized
courses for students to acquire in-demand cloud computing skills.
In the Nordics, major institutions taking part include
HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences, MDH - School of
Innovation, Design and Engineering, Metropolia University of
Applied Sciences, and Uppsala Universitet/Matematiska
Institutionen. AWS also offers a full range of training and
certification programs to help those interested in the latest cloud
computing technologies, best practices, and architectures to
advance their technical skills and further support Nordic
organizations in their digital transformation.
Developers and businesses can access the AWS Europe (Stockholm)
Region beginning today. A full list of services and details on
pricing is available at https://aws.amazon.com/local/nordics/.
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