Amazon Web Services (AWS) has begun operating its first cloud infrastructure region in Chile, with access initially restricted to a group of customers. Announced this Wednesday (11), the opening marks the company's third region in Latin America, after São Paulo and Mexico. General availability is planned for the end of 2026.
The new infrastructure, called AWS South America (Chile), allows selected organizations to run applications and store data on servers located in Chilean territory. The facility was also designed to reduce latency for digital services in Chile and neighboring markets such as Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
Among the first customers are BancoEstado, BTG, Cencosud, Consorcio, Itaú and Ripley. The initial offering includes compute, storage, networking and database services.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, such as Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI, are planned for the first year of operation but are not part of the initial services announced.
Paula Bellizia, AWS vice president for Latin America, said the expansion responds to demand from customers interested in keeping data in their own country, meeting regulatory requirements and offering services with greater speed and reliability.
Amazon plans to invest more than US$ 4 billion in the construction, connection, operation and maintenance of the Chilean infrastructure. The financial commitment had been announced in May 2025, but the start of operations for selected customers represents a new stage of the project.
According to estimates released by the company, the investment could contribute more than US$ 7.5 billion to Chile's GDP and sustain an annual average equivalent to 4,100 full-time jobs, including activities related to construction, telecommunications, energy and data center operations.
These figures represent Amazon's economic projections, not results already achieved. Opening to the general public remains planned for the coming weeks, by the end of 2026.
