AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will enable
customers to run workloads and securely store their content in
Taiwan while serving end users with even lower latency
New Region reflects AWS’s long-term commitment
to meeting high demand for cloud services in Taiwan and across Asia
Pacific
AWS plans to invest billions of dollars into
Taiwan to support the new Region
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced it will launch an AWS infrastructure Region in
Taiwan by early 2025. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will
give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well
as education, entertainment, financial services, and nonprofit
organizations, greater choice for running their applications and
serving end users from data centers located in Taiwan, ensuring
that customers who want to keep their content in Taiwan can do so.
As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest
billions of dollars in Taiwan over the next 15 years. For more
information about AWS Global Infrastructure, visit
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.
“AWS is committed to helping customers of all sizes and across
all industries accelerate their digital transformation with the
highest levels of security and resilience available,” said Prasad
Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS.
“The new AWS Region in Taiwan will enable organizations to unlock
the full potential of the cloud and build with AWS technologies
like compute, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning and
artificial intelligence to drive innovation and transform the way
businesses and institutions serve their customers. We look forward
to helping customers and AWS Partners in Taiwan deliver
cloud-enabled applications to accelerate growth, productivity, and
innovation with lower latency from data centers located in
Taiwan.”
“We appreciate AWS for offering a diverse array of innovative
cloud services to both local and international enterprises. Taiwan
boasts a well-established industrial cluster, particularly
excelling in sectors such as semiconductors and information and
communications technology,” said Mr. Jung-tai Cho, Premier of
Executive Yuan. “We anticipate that the new AWS Region in Taiwan
will foster a mutually beneficial, prosperous, and sustainable
relationship. This investment is poised to catalyze the growth of
related industry chains, generate high-quality employment
opportunities, and advance sustainable development
initiatives.”
The new AWS Region will consist of three Availability Zones at
launch, adding to AWS’s existing 105 Availability Zones across 33
geographic regions globally. With today’s announcement, AWS has
plans to launch 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS
Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS
Regions consist of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in
separate and distinct geographic locations. Availability Zones are
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, artificial intelligence (AI), compute,
database, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning (ML), mobile
services, storage, and other cloud technologies. The AWS Asia
Pacific (Taipei) Region will enable customers with data residency
preferences or requirements to store their content securely in
Taiwan to achieve even lower latency, and serve demand for cloud
services across Asia Pacific. Customers from startups and
enterprises to public sector organizations and nonprofits will be
able to use advanced technologies from the world’s leading cloud to
drive innovation.
Customers welcome the AWS Region in Taiwan
Organizations in Taiwan are among the millions of active
customers using AWS in more than 190 countries and territories
around the world that choose AWS to innovate, drive cost
efficiencies, and accelerate launch time. Organizations in Taiwan
that choose AWS to run their workloads include Acer, Cathay
Financial Holdings, Chunghwa Telecom, Gamania, KKCompany, Maicoin,
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Trend Micro, and
more.
Cathay Financial Holdings (CFH) is a leader in financial
technology in Taiwan and continuously introduces the latest
technology to create a full-scenario financial service ecosystem.
Since 2021, CFH has built a cloud environment on AWS that meets
security control and compliance requirements. “Cathay Financial
Holdings will continue to accelerate digital transformation in the
industry, and also improve the stability, security, timeliness, and
scalability of our financial services,” said Marcus Yao, senior
executive vice president of CFH. “With the forthcoming new AWS
Region in Taiwan, CFH is expected to provide customers with even
more diverse and convenient financial services.”
Chunghwa Telecom is a leader in cloud network services in
Taiwan. Chunghwa Telecom offers broad 5G bandwidth, fast network
speeds, and is one of the world’s leading mobile Internet
providers. It has also invested in international submarine cables
around the world, providing high speed, low latency and largescale
private 5G connection to enterprises. It also leverages generative
AI platforms such as Amazon Bedrock to build innovative services
and create intelligent applications for various industries. “AWS is
an important collaborator to Chunghwa Telecom. The development of
an AWS Region in Taiwan will further drive the development of
Taiwan’s information industry,” said Dr. Ivan Lin, president of
Chunghwa Telecom. “Chunghwa Telecom will leverage AWS’s
infrastructure and cloud technologies, and combined with our own
experience running information systems and offering multiple AWS
competencies, we’re looking forward to providing our customers with
even lower latency, high bandwidth, and high-security direct
connection services.”
Gamania, a leading Taiwanese online game developer, publisher,
and operator, leverages the robust and scalable infrastructure of
AWS to seamlessly run multiple game products under its brand,
ensuring a highly reliable and secure gaming experience for their
vast global player base. “Security and accessibility are critical
for player satisfaction, and we rely on AWS to ensure uninterrupted
gameplay throughout a game's lifecycle,” said Marco Chien, Gamania
Taiwan COO. “The announcement of the new AWS Region in Taiwan will
enable us to leverage the industry’s leading cloud services with
low latency while storing data domestically, ensuring a seamless
and uninterrupted gaming experience for our players. We are excited
about the opportunities this presents, as it allows us to
accelerate innovation and uncover new pathways for growth and
expansion.”
KKCompany Technologies is one of Asia’s leading AI multimedia
technology groups, with businesses covering its music streaming
platform KKBOX, an AI-powered streaming solution in BlendVision,
and cloud intelligence service Going Cloud. KKCompany has extensive
experience serving major clients throughout Asia in cloud migration
and digitization. The company offers consulting services in
generative AI, multimedia technology, digital transformation and
more for enterprises, operating under both B2C and B2B models.
“KKCompany has been a long-term collaborator with AWS,
collaborating to drive AI digital transformation in the industry,”
said Steve Wang, KKCompany chairman and CEO. “We are thrilled to
see AWS establishing data centers in Taiwan, which will strengthen
our technical base in Taiwan and support our ambition to become a
world-class software technology group.”
AWS Partners also welcome the new AWS Region
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community that
leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build
solutions and services for customers. The APN has more than 130,000
partners of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems
integrators (SIs) from over 200 countries around the world. AWS
Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the
APN provides business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market
support to customers. AWS ISVs, SIs, and consulting partners help
enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy
mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of
monitoring, automation, and management services for customers’
environments. AWS Partners in Taiwan include CKmates, eCloudvalley
Digital Technology Group, Going Cloud Co., Ltd., MetaAge
Corporation, Netron Ltd., Nextlink Technology, and many others. For
the full list of AWS Partners, visit aws.amazon.com/partners.
eCloudvalley Digital Technology Group is an AWS Premier Tier
Services Partner with a team of cloud experts with 500+
certificates. “eCloudvalley Group has always embraced our mission
of being a cloud evangelist, driving the adoption of cloud
technology across Taiwan’s industries,” said MP Tsai, CEO of
eCloudvalley Group. “With a decade-long close collaboration with
AWS, we are honored to help more and more customers and industries
move to the cloud, while being part of customers’ digital
transformation journey on AWS. We believe that the launch of the
AWS Region will further support Taiwanese companies’ digital
transformation and innovation in Taiwan with its world-leading
cloud technology, while industries with higher local data residency
requirements, such as finance and healthcare, will be able to
further advance their cloud transformation journey.”
Nextlink is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and certified
Managed Service Provider (MSP) providing cloud services and
solutions. “AWS’s investment in local infrastructure will help
drive the digital transformation of Taiwanese companies, boosting
the development of various industries spanning from traditional
industries to emerging digital sectors,” said Shasta Ho, CEO of
Nextlink Technology Inc. “The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
will address customer needs in data localization, low latency,
compliance, and high-performance computing workloads. We look
forward to leveraging AWS’s world-leading cloud technologies to
power customers’ digital transformation journeys, while
contributing to the diversification of Taiwan’s economy.”
AWS investment in Taiwan
Since 2014, AWS has launched two Amazon CloudFront edge
locations in Taiwan. Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure and
programmable content delivery network that accelerates the delivery
of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low
latency and high transfer speeds. In 2018, AWS established its
first of two AWS Direct Connect locations in Taiwan, allowing
customers to establish private connectivity between AWS and their
data center, office, or colocation environment. In 2020, AWS
launched AWS Outposts in Taiwan. AWS Outposts is a family of fully
managed solutions delivering AWS infrastructure and services to
virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent
hybrid experience. AWS expanded its infrastructure footprint in
Taiwan again in 2022 with the launch of AWS Local Zones in Taipei.
AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that
places compute, storage, database, and other select services closer
to large population, industry, and IT centers, enabling customers
to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond
latency to end users.
To support the growth in cloud adoption across Taiwan, AWS
continues to invest in upskilling students, local developers and
technical professionals, nontechnical professionals, and the next
generation of IT leaders in Taiwan through offerings like AWS
Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Skill Builder. These programs and
learning centers help learners of all backgrounds and experiences
prepare for careers in the cloud. Since 2017, AWS has trained more
than eight million people across the Asia Pacific-Japan region on
cloud skills, including more than 100,000 people in Taiwan.
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Amazon is committed to reaching net-zero carbon across its
operations by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement, as part
of The Climate Pledge. Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in
2019, and as part of that commitment, the company is on a path to
match all of the electricity used by its operations with 100%
renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of the original 2030
target. See Amazon's public methodology for more on its approach.
Amazon has been named the largest corporate purchaser of renewable
energy for the last four years — a position it’s held since 2020,
according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Amazon now has more than
500 renewable energy projects globally. Additionally, AWS will be
water positive by 2030, returning more water to communities than it
uses in its direct operations.
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hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and
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seven more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the
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