Amazon has announced the opening of its first dedicated cloud computing office in Australia, complete with a dedicated team of staff to service the market.

 

The announcement comes as speculation grows over Amazon's plans for an Australian datacentre, which would be a major factor in growing a domestic customer base for the company. Amazon is reported to have been scouting for sites for a datacentre to be established in Sydney’s CBD.

 

“International expansion is important. Being a customer-centric organisation, we’ve heard from customers that they want infrastructure in Australia, it’s something that we’re interested in talking to customers about,” Amazon’s Asia-Pacific managing director of its Web Services division Shane Owenby told a group of potential customers at a half-day presentation.

 

Despite its lack of a domestic datacentre, Amazon has said that it serves a large local market of customers in Australia who rely on centres in Singapore, Japan and the western United States.