Amazon Web Services Caters to Asia-Pacific Businesses with New Infrastructure in Singapore

November 12, 2009 by Gwen  
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If you’ve been fond of Amazon Web Services (AWS) but have found the lack of an Asia-based infrastructure less than appealing, here’s something to rejoice about. Singapore will be first country in the expansion of AWS’ cloud infrastructure into Asia.

In their words:

“AWS has announced an expansion of its services into an Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010, enabling businesses to deploy compute and storage resources in close proximity to their end-users in the region. AWS customers will be able to access AWS’s infrastructure services from multiple Availability Zones in Singapore in the first half of 2010, then in other Availability Zones within Asia over the second half of 2010. AWS services available at the launch of the Asia-Pacific region will include Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront.

“Developers and businesses located in Asia, as well as those with a multi-national presence, have been eager for Asia-based infrastructure to minimize latency and optimize performance,” said Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Amazon Web Services. “We’re very excited to announce the expansion of AWS infrastructure into Asia to help our customers plan their technology investments and better serve their end-users in Asia.”

What This Means For Startups

A better technology investment and happier customers!

[hat tip: Meng Weng]

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Comments

  • Really? I'll like to see the performance and costing. I think the cost might be subsidised with low-cost land or taxpayer's money. Like all fancy projects that we have like wireless@sg. Who pay? Govt pay lor.
  • I wonder about the implications to costs. Singapore/Asian bandwidth is prohibitively expensive any which ways. Start ups compromise for off location web based services because US hosting can be 5-10 times as cheap as Singapore/Asian hosting.

    Shalabh Pandey
    http://www.chasingthestorm.com
  • Finally, I have tried setting up server instances on their US servers and the latency is bad (Both east coast and west coast), hopefully this will be better for asian based developers looking for a cloud computing solution
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