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Amazon Web Services expert confirms $7.5b investment will bring more jobs

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 2 Sept 2025, 6:49pm
Inside an Amazon Web Services international data centre that stores information for business and government customers. Photo / Noah Berger
Inside an Amazon Web Services international data centre that stores information for business and government customers. Photo / Noah Berger

Amazon Web Services expert confirms $7.5b investment will bring more jobs

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 2 Sept 2025, 6:49pm

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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