Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened its first office in Budapest as part of the company’s ongoing expansion in Central and Eastern Europe to serve the growing number of regional customers and partners, the company announced on Monday, 5 June. Through the new Hungarian centre, employees can provide even more support for the adoption of AWS cloud services to organisations of various sizes in Hungary, including startups, businesses, and public sector organisations.
This expansion follows the establishment of the AWS server base in Budapest in January 2020.
Hungarian customers utilise the AWS system for a wide range of applications, including mobile, web, and social media applications, development and testing environments, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), big data analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT). They also rely on AWS for running enterprise business applications and critical computing tasks. Some of the AWS service users in Hungary include Arcanum, Colossyan, Euronics, ingatlan.com, Lensa, Magyar BankHolding, Proofminder, Puraset, Raiffeisen Bank International, Recart, SEON Technologies, and Shapr3D.
AWS has been supporting the Hungarian startup and technology community for years, as well as students and teachers through programmes such as AWS Academy and AWS Activate. In addition to these initiatives, Amazon Web Services is now introducing the new AWS Skill Builder programme in Hungary. AWS Skill Builder is the AWS Training and Certification digital learning centre with over 600 free courses.
Amazon.com Inc. is the world’s leading online retail company, while AWS is its cloud services division. Amazon’s revenue for the first quarter of this year increased by 9 per cent to $127.4 billion compared to $116.4 billion from the previous year. The net income was $3.17 billion, or 31 cents per share, compared to $3.84 billion, or 38 cents per share, loss from the previous year. In the first quarter, revenue in the advertising segment grew the most by 21 per cent to $9.5 billion, and in the cloud services sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS), it increased by 16 per cent to $21.4 billion.
