Amazon Web Services will set up 3 server farms in Israel in 2023 in an investment of $ 2 billion

AWS (Amazon Web Services) will set up local server farms in Israel in 2023, the company announced, which recently won the cloud tender (Nimbus project) of the State of Israel. It will probably be the last supplier to silence local infrastructure in Israel. This is after Microsoft, Oracle and Google, which also won the tender, will also have local infrastructure.
According to the announcement by AWS, which is the arm of Amazon that deals with cloud services, the computing infrastructure it will establish will allow the government, educational institutions and nonprofits to run and run their applications and serve the end users in their services.
"The new infrastructure will empower more public and private institutions, innovative start-ups and international companies, in order to provide applications designed specifically for the cloud. These will help stimulate economic development across the country," said Peter Desentis, senior vice president of global infrastructure at AWS.
AWS's infrastructures consist of "availability zones", which place infrastructures in separate and distinct geographical locations, far enough away to significantly reduce the risk that a single event will affect customers' business continuity. However, they are close enough to provide low response times. Worldwide, AWS has 81 “availability zones” in 25 different geographic regions.
The press release also revealed for the first time in the press release: "The company announces today that it will develop computer infrastructure in Israel during the first half of 2023." On winning the Nimbus tender, the company writes: "Cloud technology is at the heart of the Israeli government's digital transformation program, and its approach emphasizes the importance of labeling a clear path for cloud adoption and leadership through example, in order to reinvent services for the citizen."
Amazon is actually building three server farms in Israel: one in Tnuvot, one in Beit Shemesh and one in the industrial area that they are. Amazon's aggregate investment in it
Amazon is without a doubt the leading cloud provider for startups. In a press release, it lists only a small part of its lessons: "Customers in Israel who built their business on AWS include, among others: Amdocs, AppsFlyer, Ayalon Insurance, Bizzabo, CyberArk, Fiverr, Gett, Gong, Gamoshi, Hashavshevet, Harel Insurance, Innovid, "ironSource, Jfrog, Kaltura, Lumigo, Migdal, monday.com, Netafim, NICE, Operative, Perion, Tnuva, Wix, Rami Levi, SimilarWeb, Sentinel One, Yad2, and many more."
"We congratulate Amazon Web Service AWS on their winning bid in the first tender of the Nimbus Project, a multi-year flagship project led by the Government of Israel Procurement Administration, to provide a comprehensive framework for providing cloud services to the Government of Israel," said Yahli Rotenberg, Israel's Accountant General. As part of the terms of the tender, Amazon will have to establish a subsidiary in Israel, with which the state will be held accountable.
In addition to Amazon, Google also won the tender, and it also officially announced the establishment of an Israeli "Reagan". Earlier, Microsoft and Oracle also announced the establishment of sites in Israel, but they did not win the government tender. The infrastructure is estimated at least two billion shekels, it is estimated In the Treasury. "Each 'Availability Zone' has independent power sources, cooling systems and physical security systems, and is connected through redundant networks with extremely low latency times," it said.