New Locations in Australia for Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, and Direct Connect

We are excited to announce new locations in Australia for Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, and Direct Connect. First, Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 customers have a new edge location in Melbourne, Australia. This is the second edge location in Australia (joining Sydney), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 52. The new edge location can improve performance and availability for end users of your application and supports all Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 features at no additional cost.

Second, AWS Direct Connect customers now have a new location in Sydney, Australia. This is the second Direct Connect location in Sydney, and brings the total number of locations to 12. If you have your own equipment running at Global Switch, you can use Direct Connect to optimize the connection to AWS. If your equipment is located somewhere else, you can work with one of our APN Partners supporting Direct Connect to establish a connection from your location to a Direct Connection location, and from there on to AWS.

To learn more about Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, or Direct Connect. please visit our details pages.

If you are interested in learning more about Amazon CloudFront, please join us for any of the following Webinars:

• Delivering Dynamic Content using Amazon CloudFront: July 22nd, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
• Amazon CloudFront Office Hours: July 30th, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
• Whole Site Delivery using Amazon CloudFront presented by Kalyanaraman Prasad, VP of Amazon CloudFront (for Australia Customers): Aug 13th, 2014 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)