Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to investing 10.1 billion reais ($1.8 billion) in its Brazilian data center operations through 2034.

According to AWS, the funding will be used to "expand, build, connect, operate and maintain data centers in Brazil."

First reported by StreetInsider and Reuters, AWS previously invested 19.2 billion reais ($3.39 bn) in the period between 2011 and 2023.

AWS has a cloud region in São Paulo with three Availability Zones, which launched in 2011. It also lists Edge locations in Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Fortaleza. Plans for the latter emerged in 2021.

In 2020, AWS announced it would be investing $240 million into its Brazilian cloud infrastructure over the next two years, though details about what the money would be used for were not shared.

This week, the company also committed to investing $10.47 billion in its data center operations in the UK over the next five years.

All three of the major cloud providers have a presence in Brazil.

Microsoft launched a São Paulo Azure cloud region – known as Brazil South – in Campinas in 2014. It was expanded to three availability zones in 2021. In 2024, the company began work on more data centers in the Campinas area of São Paulo state.

Google launched a Brazilian cloud region in 2017, also located in São Paulo.

The Brazilian data center market is growing. Data Center Map currently lists 150 data centers in the country, although several are currently under development.

Earlier this week, DigitalBridge-owned Scala Data Centers pitched plans for a $50bn artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus that could reach 4.75GW.

Prumo Logistica is looking to develop hyperscale data centers at Açu port, Rio de Janeiro, and the likes of Odata and Cirion also have projects underway among others.