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                There's hopes the promised 1,000 new jobs created from Amazon's locally based data centres will go to Kiwis.
The tech giant's investing $7.5 billion into the Auckland-based centres, which go live today.
It'll mean New Zealand customers can use the new cloud region to run workloads and store data locally.
Amazon Web Services country manager Manuel Bohnet says they're taking a long-term view with this project.
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