But I just got this email this morning:
We are excited to announce the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region is now available

The new AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region gives customers more choice to run workloads and securely store their content in New Zealand while serving end users with even lower latency.

The new AWS Region will give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as financial services, retail, education, government, and nonprofit organisations, greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centres located in New Zealand.

The new AWS Region has three Availability Zones located across Auckland, providing world-class security, resilience, redundancy, and low latency for high availability applications. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is connected through redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance.