This is big news for us in NZ, and on the back of Microsoft announcing an Azure region here too. Pretty good for a small country to have both AWS and Azure regions right here on our doorstep.
It is great news and I am surprised to be honest. From New Zealand, our closest AWS region is Sydney with a ping (over Wifi, as I write this from Auckland) of 44ms. Our population is ~5M.
This only spells great things for the tech prospects in NZ which are already very bright. I, for one, am excited to continue to base tech businesses in this country.
