Amazon is opening cloud regions in Southeast Asia because customers want their data to be stored securely in their very own countries, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels said in an exclusive interview.
“The reason for this is that many of our customers have asked for it. They really wanted something local so that they could, for example, address local data storage requirements or personal data protection,” Vogels told CNBC’s JP Ong.
Amazon's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, was the world's largest cloud service provider within the fourth quarter, accounting for 31% of total cloud spending, in accordance with a study Report from February twenty sixth by Canalys.
An AWS Region is a physical location where data centers are clustered. There are at the very least three separate availability zones inside each AWS Region. Each zone has its own power, cooling and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low latency networks.
“And it's not just startups that are looking for it, but also large companies and government agencies. “You can imagine that government agencies also want to undergo a digital transformation,” said Vogels.
“And it’s important for them to have these types of technologies on site.” [the] Country to be certain that they’ll best serve their customers or their residents,” Vogels said.
Amazon said in November that this was the case Introducing a brand new AWS Region in Malaysia this 12 months. The company previously pledged an investment of 25.5 billion Malaysian ringgit ($6 billion) by 2037 to support this Government ambitions to rework Malaysia to change into a “high-income” digital economy by 2030.
“This new AWS Region will also enable customers with data residency preferences to securely store data in Malaysia, helping customers achieve even lower latency and meeting demand for cloud services across Southeast Asia,” the statement said .
That comes after AWS has opened a cloud region in Indonesia in December 2021 and in Singapore in 2010. AWS can also be there plan the beginning an infrastructure region in Thailand.
AWS already operates multiple regions in North America, South America, Europe, China, Asia Pacific, South Africa and the Middle East.
“And in particular, of course, the security features of AWS that allow us to protect these customers. Safety will and will remain our top priority.” [It] is our primary investment area,” said Vogels.
“And to ensure the security of customers in our computing regions, [it] is of great attraction for companies here in the region and also for governments.”
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