SEATTLE, USA: Amazon Web Services (AWS) LLC, an Amazon.com company, announced an expansion of its services into an Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010.

Software developers and businesses 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.

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AWS services available at the launch of the Asia-Pacific region will include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront.

Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Amazon Web Services, said: "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. 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."

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Pricing for Amazon Web Services in Asia will be announced when the services launch next year.