HBF’s cloud provider opens first "local zone" in Perth

HBF, one of Australia’s top 10 private health insurance providers, has welcomed the new local zone in Perth.

“AWS enables us to innovate at pace, process data faster and enhance our service capabilities to benefit our large customer base in Western Australia and across Australia. The launch of the Perth AWS Local Zones location will help HBF to deliver future applications that require ultra-low latency,” said Sanjeev Gupta, chief information and transformation officer at HBF, as reported by IT Wire.

The first Australian AWS local zone

The new AWS local zone, based in Perth, is designed for critical Western Australian industries, such as mining, resources, healthcare, and the public sector.

It will ensure single-digit millisecond latency to end-users in Perth to achieve low-latency requirements for virtual workstations, remote healthcare, video analytics, augmented and virtual reality, and online gaming. It will also help organisations migrate additional workloads to AWS, supporting a hybrid cloud migration strategy and simplifying IT operations.

The launch enables West Australian customers to improve digital applications’ performance, process large amounts of data more quickly, and drive productivity gains.

With AWS managing and supporting AWS local zones, customers do not incur the expense and effort of procuring, operating, and maintaining the infrastructure.