Amazon should invest in Colombia or Panama instead.
These two countries (which ironically were originally the same a century ago) have the best geographical position in the continent to reach both North and South, lower amount of earthquakes than Argentina and Chile, more opportunities to benefit from clean sources of energy (solar, wind and sea waves), and the internal politics are better than the neighboring countries.
Colombia, specifically, would benefit a lot from more investment from the tech industry. It will also allow the country to reduce the number brains escaping to the United States, Canada and Europe where companies pay more than the local ones for doing the exact same things.
Cloudflare has already invested in a data center in Bogotá [1] and Medellín [2]. Both cities have some of the best business executives and software engineers in Latin America, so this would be a win-win situation for all parties and a good excuse to continue making business there.
Reuters reported back in March 2019 that Amazon will open a Latin America infrastructure location in Colombia and help train 2,000 students in cloud technology [3]. The news came after the first-ever Latin America AWS Public Sector Summit in Bogota on March 28th, 2019 [4]. This edge location will become the sixth in Latin America, but first outside of Brazil [5].
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bogota/
[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/listo-medellin-colombia-cloudfla...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-colombia/amazo...
[4] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/president-of-colom...
[5] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/aws-plans-edge-locat...
These two countries (which ironically were originally the same a century ago) have the best geographical position in the continent to reach both North and South, lower amount of earthquakes than Argentina and Chile, more opportunities to benefit from clean sources of energy (solar, wind and sea waves), and the internal politics are better than the neighboring countries.
Colombia, specifically, would benefit a lot from more investment from the tech industry. It will also allow the country to reduce the number brains escaping to the United States, Canada and Europe where companies pay more than the local ones for doing the exact same things.
Cloudflare has already invested in a data center in Bogotá [1] and Medellín [2]. Both cities have some of the best business executives and software engineers in Latin America, so this would be a win-win situation for all parties and a good excuse to continue making business there.
Reuters reported back in March 2019 that Amazon will open a Latin America infrastructure location in Colombia and help train 2,000 students in cloud technology [3]. The news came after the first-ever Latin America AWS Public Sector Summit in Bogota on March 28th, 2019 [4]. This edge location will become the sixth in Latin America, but first outside of Brazil [5].
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bogota/
[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/listo-medellin-colombia-cloudfla...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-colombia/amazo...
[4] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/president-of-colom...
[5] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/aws-plans-edge-locat...