SEATTLE, Nov 09, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
(NASDAQ: AMZN) -- Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company,
today announced the launch of a new lower priced US West Region - US
West (Oregon). Starting today, businesses can choose to locate their AWS
resources in the Oregon Region, which like other AWS Regions, contains
multiple redundant Availability Zones for architecting highly available
applications. Oregon joins Northern California as AWS's second US West
location and provides businesses a new, low-cost, low latency option for
serving customers and applications benefiting from infrastructure
located in the Western United States. To sign up and get started using
the new US West (Oregon) Region, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
"We continue to be relentlessly focused on lowering costs so we can pass
these savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Since the
launch of AWS over five years ago, we've lowered our prices over a dozen
times," said Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, AWS. "Launching this new
lower-priced US West Region today is another example of our commitment
to driving down costs for our customers - now, developers and businesses
with operations or end users near the west coast of the United States
can use our US West Infrastructure at an even lower cost than they could
before."
US West (Oregon) is the seventh AWS infrastructure Region, joining US
East (N. Virginia), EU West (Dublin), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific
(Singapore), GovCloud (US), and the existing US West (N. California)
Region.
The new US West (Oregon) Region is priced approximately 10 percent lower
than the existing US West (N. California) Region and equal to the US
East (N. Virginia) Region. The new Region provides a broad suite of AWS
services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon
EBS), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS),
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification
Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Elastic
Load Balancing, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Auto Scaling, AWS
CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most
compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced
electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright
sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an
easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages,
search, shop, and take notes - still with all the benefits of the most
advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line
e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch,
with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the
Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and
web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud,
Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated
web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core
processor.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
www.amazon.cn,
www.amazon.it,
and www.amazon.es.
As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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