Amazon is launching an AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region – planning to invest more than US$5 billion to support the construction, connection, operation and maintenance of its data centres in Taiwan.
“The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will enable organisations of all sizes to build and scale with confidence using our comprehensive suite of cloud services, ranging from foundational compute and storage to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, all while meeting local data residency requirements,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services, AWS.
“Organisations across Taiwan, and across Asia Pacific, can now leverage the same global infrastructure that millions of businesses worldwide rely on, while benefitting from single-digit millisecond latency, to accelerate innovation, increase operational efficiency, drive business growth and deliver better experiences for their end users.”
“We appreciate the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, which shows Amazon’s strong commitment to Taiwan,” said Jung-tai Cho, Premier of Taiwan. “This investment also recognises Taiwan as a pivotal partner in the global supply chain and demonstrates the solid foundation of the collaboration between AWS and Taiwan. We are pleased to see AWS deepen its joint efforts with the Taiwan government and the industry to accelerate digital transformation and promote cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. We look forward to contributing to fostering a robust digital ecosystem together to advance the technological innovation globally.”
As part of its commitment to contribute to the development of digital skills, AWS plans to hire and develop additional local personnel to operate and support the new region.
