AWS Launches Infrastructure Region in Thailand
Amazon Web
Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company announced the launch of the
AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. Now, developers, startups, entrepreneurs,
and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations,
will have greater choice for running their applications and serving end users
from AWS data centers located in Thailand. As part of its long-term commitment,
AWS is planning to invest more than $5 billion in Thailand. For more
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AWS estimates the
construction and ongoing operation of the new AWS Region will add approximately
$10 billion to Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) and support an average
of more than 11,000 full-time-equivalent jobs at external businesses annually.
These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering,
telecommunications, and others within the country’s broader economy, will be
part of the AWS supply chain in Thailand.
“I would like to
extend my appreciation to Amazon Web Services for investing in the development
of data centers in Thailand,” said Paetongtarn Shinawatra, prime minister of
Thailand. “I am pleased that Thailand’s potential and readiness have been
recognized by one of the world’s leading companies. I look forward to AWS
playing a pivotal role, in partnership with the government, in advancing
Thailand toward a more inclusive digital society and expanding access to
digital services for all citizens.”
“We continue to see
rapid cloud adoption across Asia Pacific as more customers unlock the full
potential of the world’s most extensive, reliable, and secure cloud,” said
Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS. “This
new AWS Region in Thailand will help customers across all industries deploy
advanced applications with a broad set of AWS technologies that offer both core
cloud capabilities, such as compute, storage, analytics, and networking, and
services that enable customers to rapidly evolve, such as artificial
intelligence and machine learning. With today’s launch, AWS is proud to support
Thailand’s digital transformation and help accelerate its role as a regional hub
for artificial intelligence.”
With the launch of
the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, AWS has 111 Availability Zones across
35 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 15 more Availability
Zones and five more AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS Regions are composed
of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct
geographic locations. The AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region consists of three
Availability Zones located far enough from each other to support customers’
business continuity, but near enough to provide low latency for high
availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. 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.
AWS offers the
broadest and deepest portfolio of services, including analytics, compute,
database, IoT, generative AI, machine learning, mobile services, storage, and
other cloud technologies. Customers from startups and enterprises to public
sector organizations and nonprofits will be able to use advanced technologies
from the world’s leading cloud provider to drive innovation, meet data
residency preferences, achieve lower latency, and serve demand for cloud
services in Thailand and across Asia Pacific.
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