China’s Huawei has activated a second datacenter in Brazil, to provide greater capacity and attract customers concerned with the migration of critical workloads to the cloud, the company said.
Huawei’s new Brazil site comes as the world’s major public cloud players, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, are also expanding their cloud footprint in Brazil and Latin America.
The new datacenter, AZ2, will serve mainly as a backup zone for cloud services offered from its other facility in the country, Huawei said.
“There is still a concern in the market that the service might occasionally falter, and this prevents companies from migrating their critical applications to the cloud. AZ2 brings more stability and increases the network’s delivery capacity in Brazil,” José Nilo, VP of cloud at Huawei Brasil, said.
The investment is part of Huawei’s commitment to increase its cloud offerings in Brazil.
According to Latin American business information portal BNamericas, Huawei’s regional cloud business is relatively new, having kicked off with the activation of a datacenter in Chile, in August 2019, followed by datacenters in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Peru.
Last October, Microsoft launched a second cloud region in Brazil with the activation of a datacenter in Rio de Janeiro. About two months later, the US group announced it would open a cloud region in Chile as part of a massive investment drive in the country.
Huawei is expected to be able to join the 5G network auctions slated for June this year in Brazil, with the government revealing recently revealing more openness, despite pressure from the previous U.S. administration.
