28 August 2024
Amazon Web Services announced the launch of its AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, along with a pledge to invest an estimated US$6.2 billion in Malaysia from now to 2038.
The new Malaysia region consists of three Availability Zones, which AWS says are located far enough from each other to support 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.
“The new AWS Region in Malaysia enables organizations across Asia Pacific to unlock the full potential of the world’s most extensive and reliable cloud, helping customers deploy advanced applications with a broad set of AWS technologies like AI and ML,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS.
In addition to serving Malaysia’s increasing appetite for cloud and AI, the new region will also add an estimated US$12.1 billion to the country GDP and support an average of more than 3,500 full-time equivalent jobs at external businesses annually through 2038.
“These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and others within the country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Malaysia,” said AWS in a statement.
AWS first announced plans for the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region in March 2023. At the time, it pledged to invest US$6 billion in Malaysia through to 2037.
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, AWS now has 108 Availability Zones across 34 geographic regions.
