Amazon launches cloud platform in APAC

BANGALORE, INDIA: Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., announced the launch of its first Asia Pacific Region service. 

Prior to today, the AWS platform has been available from data centres in the US and Europe. The first AWS Asia Pacific Region (located in Singapore) is now open.

“One of the most frequent and resounding requests over the last year has been for AWS to launch an Asia Pacific presence. We’ve heard it from Asia Pacific companies already using AWS in our US datacentres; we’ve heard it from our US and European customers wanting to better serve Asia Pacific end-users; and we’ve heard it loud and clear from Asia Pacific businesses who preferred to wait to leverage the AWS infrastructure platform until we had a data centre presence in Asia,” said Andy Jassy, senior VP, Amazon Web Services.

Developers and businesses can access AWS services from the new Singapore Availability Zones beginning today, including 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 CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).