Cloud pioneer expands global infrastructure footprint with the new
AWS EU (Paris) Region, enabling customers to run applications and store
their content in data centers in France
Tens of thousands of customers and APN partners in France are
actively using AWS including, AlloResto, BforBank, Canal+, Capgemini,
Claranet, Decathlon, D2SI by Devoteam, Edifixio, Engie, Fastbooking,
Kartable, LafargeHolcim, Le Figaro, Leboncoin, Les Echos, Les Restos du
Coeur, Mondadori France, Nexity, OpenClassrooms, PayPlug, Radio France,
Schneider Electric, SNCF, Societe Generale, Soitec, Teads, TF1, Veolia,
and many more
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2017--
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ:AMZN), announced the launch of the AWS EU (Paris) Region. With
this launch, AWS now provides 49 Availability Zones across 18 technology
infrastructure regions globally with another 12 Availability Zones and
four regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, Sweden, and a second AWS
GovCloud Region in the US expected to come online by early 2019. The AWS
EU (Paris) Region is AWS’s fourth in Europe, joining existing regions in
Germany, Ireland, and the UK. Tens of thousands of French customers
already use AWS in other regions, and starting today, developers,
startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and
non-profit organizations, can leverage AWS to run applications and store
data in France by going to: https://aws.amazon.com/fr/paris/
The AWS EU (Paris) Region offers three Availability Zones. AWS Regions
are comprised of Availability Zones, which refer to technology
infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough
distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting
availability, yet near enough for business continuity applications that
require rapid failover. Each Availability Zone has independent power,
cooling, physical security, and is 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, the new AWS EU
(Paris) Region gives customers with data sovereignty requirements the
ability to store their data in France with the assurance that their
content will not move unless they move it. The new Region adds to the
existing infrastructure AWS already has in France, which includes three
Edge Network Locations in Paris and one in Marseille, for customers
looking to deliver websites, applications, and content to end users with
low latency. These are part of AWS’s existing network of 107 Points of
Presence (96 Edge Locations and 11 Regional Edge Caches) globally.
“For over a decade, AWS has been supporting French builders and
entrepreneurs, in enterprises and startups, on their quest to reinvent
and evolve their customer’s experiences,” said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon
Web Services, Inc. “We have tens of thousands of French customers using
AWS from regions outside of France, but we’ve heard them loud and clear
and are excited to deliver them an AWS Region in France, so they can
easily operate their most latency-sensitive workloads or house any data
that needs to reside on French soil.”
Politicians and officials, from French central and local government,
also welcomed the opening of the AWS EU (Paris) Region. "The
establishment of the AWS Region in France reinforces the attractiveness
of our country for digital companies, strengthens the trust of French
organizations in the cloud, and creates the right conditions for their
digital transformation,” said Éric Bothorel, La République En Marche!
representative in the French National Assembly and member of the
Economic Affairs Commission, with a focus on Digital Affairs. “The
digital revolution is bringing about major economic, social, and
societal changes and represents a tremendous growth opportunity for the
benefit of the French economy as a whole. The cloud is the essential
tool to ensure the development of this new economy and the digital
transformation of businesses. It is also an important generator of jobs
and we are glad to see AWS is a key part of this."
Valérie Pécresse, President of Ile de France, also welcomed the new AWS
infrastructure region saying, "We are delighted that Amazon Web Services
is investing heavily in the opening of its datacenters in Île-de-France.
It is a recognition of the strength and attractiveness of Ile de France,
which is establishing itself as the technical hub of Europe. The region
has already become established in the eyes of large companies and
startups that have set up their headquarters in the metropolitan area.
AWS’s choice to locate their datacenters here will help to attract even
more companies and validates our ambition to be the first smart region
of Europe.”
One of the reasons customers in France are moving to AWS is the
company’s investment in security, compliance, and data protection. All
AWS infrastructure regions around the world are designed, built, and
regularly audited to meet the most rigorous compliance standards and to
provide high levels of security for all AWS customers. These include ISO
27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1 (Formerly SAS 70), SOC 2 and SOC 3
Security & Availability, PCI DSS Level 1, and many more. This means
customers benefit from all the best practices of AWS policies,
architecture, and operational processes built to satisfy the needs of
even the most security sensitive customers.
AWS is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield and the AWS Data
Processing Addendum (DPA) is GDPR-ready and available now to all AWS
customers to help them prepare for May 25, 2018, when the GDPR becomes
enforceable. AWS’ DPA terms allow customers to transfer personal data to
countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) in compliance with
European Union (EU) data protection laws. AWS also adheres to the Cloud
Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) Code of Conduct. The
CISPE Code of Conduct helps customers verify that AWS is using
appropriate data protection standards to protect their data, consistent
with the GDPR. In addition, AWS offers a wide range of services and
features to help customers meet the requirements of the GDPR, including
services for access controls, monitoring, logging, and encryption.
Customers and APN Partners welcome the new AWS infrastructure
Region to France
In France, AWS works with tens of thousands of customers, including more
than 80 percent of companies listed on the CAC 40, the French stock
market index. Enterprises such as Canal+, Capgemini, Decathlon, Engie,
LafargeHolcim, Le Figaro, Les Echos, Mondadori France, Nexity, Schneider
Electric, Societe Generale, Soitec, TF1, and Veolia, are now using AWS
to speed their time-to-market, lower their costs, and support their
businesses globally.
CAC 40 enterprise Schneider Electric is a leader in energy management
and automation and is using AWS to support its transition to becoming a
digital business. “For the past six years, we have been working with AWS
as a key technology provider to support our digital transformation,”
said Hervé Coureil, Chief Digital Officer, Schneider Electric. “By
migrating our old IT systems to the cloud, we can accelerate our time to
market, lower our IT costs, and better support our global business
operations. For example, we are building our enterprise big data
platform on AWS to give us the ability to centralize data from dozens of
critical operational systems. Using AWS enables us to accelerate key
decision-making processes and gain meaningful insights from large
datasets for our pricing, logistics, human resources, and risk
management applications.”
Another CAC 40 enterprise using AWS to support innovation in its
business is Societe Generale, one of the largest banks in France and the
world. “Societe Generale Group has been working with AWS to accelerate
its digital transformation while complying with European and French
financial services regulations. Using AWS, we developed SG Research, an
application that makes Societe Generale’s analyst reports available to
corporate customers allowing them to make better investment decisions,”
said Carlos Goncalves, Head of Global Technology Services, Societe
Generale. “We welcome the new AWS Region in France as it will help to
accelerate the deployment of our hybrid strategy by delivering lower
latency between applications running in the cloud and our information
systems running in French data centers.”
As well as large, security-conscious enterprise organizations, the
public sector in France is also entrusting AWS with mission critical
workloads to deliver the highest levels of security and privacy. Public
sector organizations using AWS to transform the services they deliver to
the citizens of France include Kartable, Les Restos du Coeur,
OpenClassrooms, Radio France, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer
Français (SNCF), and many others.
SNCF, the French state-owned railway company, chose to build its SNCF
mobile application on AWS to give traffic information to the 14 million
travelers across its network in real time. “Using AWS, we are able to
absorb peaks of hundreds of thousands of users per second on our mobile
application. In times of extreme weather, traffic events, holidays, or
engineering work, many travelers will connect to the application at
once, and AWS gives us the ability to scale to cater to all of our
travelers,” said Agnes Chiroux, SNCF Application Project Manager. “The
new AWS Region in France is an opportunity for us to speed-up innovation
and ensure a good experience for our users. In the future, we expect to
develop new predictive features for the SNCF application, using machine
learning and big data services in the AWS Region in France, to deliver
reliable information to travelers. Using the new AWS Region will enable
us to pursue our mission which is to keep travelers informed in real
time and always suggest the fastest and easiest way to reach their
destination.”
Non-profit organizations are also adopting AWS to innovate and better
complete their mission of helping the underprivileged people of France.
One example is Les Restos du Coeur, a French charity that provides
assistance to the needy, delivering food packages, and participating in
their social and economic integration back into French society. Les
Restos du Coeur is using AWS for its Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) system to track the assistance given to each of its beneficiaries
and the impact this is having on their lives. AWS offers Les Restos du
Coeur high levels of security, which is essential for managing
beneficiaries’ personal data. “We are delighted to learn that Amazon Web
Services has opened data centers in France as it now gives us the option
to keep the personal data of our beneficiaries in the country as we
expand our use of the cloud,” said Patrice Blanc, CEO at Restos du
Coeur. “We started our journey to the cloud by building our CRM system
on AWS, which is used by thousands of volunteers in more than 2,000
centers. This allows our teams to manage how we serve beneficiaries and
their participation in activities to get them back into society, such as
resume writing workshops, cooking classes, French lessons, computing
courses, and more. Using AWS, we can now deliver personalized support to
each of our beneficiaries and this insight is helping us to bring more
people out of poverty, get them into work, and further our mission of
helping the people of France.”
Some of the most successful startups—as well as established enterprises
and public sector organizations—in France are using AWS to build and
rapidly expand their businesses across the country, throughout Europe,
and around the world. Companies such as 1001 Pharmacies, Botify,
CaptainDash, ContentSquare, Drivy, FrontApp, Iconosquare, Invoxia,
Ividata, La Ruche Qui dit Oui!, Linxo, ManoMano, Nestor, Peter,
Photobox, Predicsis, Pretty Simple, Realytics, Silkke, Slimpay, Softbank
Robotics, Teads, Yomoni, and many more have embraced AWS as the
infrastructure that is powering their businesses. One well-known example
is AlloResto by JustEat, a leader in the French foodtech industry, which
is using AWS to scale to cope with peaks in traffic as well as to
innovate faster on behalf of its customers. “We are pleased that the new
AWS EU (Paris) Region has now opened as it will allow us to store data
closer to our thousands of French customers, lower the latency of
running our application, and improve the customer experience,” said Noel
Ly, International Platform Manager at AlloResto by JustEat. “We are
running a foodorder platform that connects clients with participating
delivery and takeaway restaurant partners which means our business sees
intense spikes of activity for a few hours of the day, at lunchtime and
again at dinner. Our website needs to scale up easily, and thanks to
AWS, we are able to do this, fulfilling over 10 million orders this
year. Using AWS, we estimate we will reduce our IT costs by around 50
percent in the next two years, something that would have been impossible
with our previous co-location environment and for a company like us,
saving costs is vitally important to the business. With AWS our
stability has never been better which allows us to deliver customers a
reliable and responsive application, as well as gourmet food.”
Startups in the regulated financial services industry are also using AWS
to increase agility while ensuring the highest levels of security for
their applications as they grow their businesses. PayPlug is an online
credit card payment solution, which enables e-merchants to enrich their
customer experience by providing user-friendly mobile payment gateways.
“AWS has been key to the success of our business by providing us with a
highly secure, compliant, and PCI DSS-certified infrastructure out of
the box,” said Camille Tyan, CEO PayPlug. “When we started PayPlug, a
service provider told us that we were too small and that it would be far
too complicated for us to get PCI DSS certification, but they changed
their mind as soon as we told them our data is hosted on AWS, due to the
high levels of security and compliance it provides. Since then, in
November 2016, we became one of the first FinTech startups operating on
AWS to obtain the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority
(Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution - ACPR) payment
institution license. Now with AWS infrastructure in France, we look
forward to further expanding the long list of financial services
certifications and accreditations we have.”
French-based AWS
Partner Network (APN) Partners also welcomed the arrival of the AWS
EU (Paris) Region. The APN includes tens of thousands of Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs) and Systems Integrators (SIs) around the world
with APN participation among French based entities growing significantly
over the past 12 months. APN Partners build innovative solutions and
services on AWS and the APN helps by providing them with business,
technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. In France, APN SIs
supporting customers as they move to AWS include Premier Consulting
Partners such as Accenture, Capgemini, Claranet, CloudReach, DXC, and
Edifixio as well as Advanced Consulting Partners such as ABC Systemes,
Atos, CoreExpert, Cycloid, D2SI by Devoteam, Linkbynet, Oxalide, Ozones,
Scaleo, and Sopra Steria. These Partners are helping enterprise and
public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical
applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and
management services. APN ISVs including Axway, Commerce Guys, Efront,
MicroStrategy, Sage, Software AG, Splunk, Talend, Tibco, and Zerolight
are already serving their French customers from AWS Regions around the
world, with many also making their software available from the AWS EU
(Paris) Region at launch. Customers can also easily find, trial, deploy,
and buy software solutions for AWS on the AWS
Marketplace.
Capgemini, a CAC40 company and global leader in consulting, technology
services, and digital transformation, also welcomed the opening of the
new AWS EU (Paris) Region. “We have been working with many regulated
companies that want to store their data on French soil and, at the same
time, take advantage of AWS, so we are excited about the benefits the
new AWS Region in France will bring to our customers,” said Aiman Ezzat,
Group Executive Board Member at Capgemini. “As well as French enterprise
and public sector organizations, we also see this opening up an
opportunity for our many international customers to expand their
presence in France and to give their end users low-latency access to
their applications in the country. We look forward to working with our
customers on the migration of their workloads to this new AWS Region.”
Developers and businesses can access the AWS EU (Paris) Region beginning
today. A full list of services is available at https://aws.amazon.com/fr/paris/
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