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Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest US$6 billion in Malaysia by 2037, making it the largest international technology investment in the country to date. As part of the investment, it will be launching an infrastructure region in Malaysia.
The new AWS region will enable customers who prefer to keep their data in Malaysia to do so securely. It will also increase data transfer speed and meet the growing demand for cloud services across Southeast Asia.
The region will have three availability zones when it starts, adding to the current 99 availability zones in 31 geographic regions that AWS has rolled out around the world. Availability zones are separate and distinct locations within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures.
AWS provides services such as analytics, compute, database, IoT, machine learning, mobile services, storage, and other cloud technologies. It counts Astro Malaysia Berhad, Axiata Group, and Bank Islam Malaysia as some of its customers in the country.
“We look forward to helping Malaysian institutions, startups, and companies deliver cloud-powered applications to fuel economic development across the country and to spur job creation, skills training, and educational opportunities in the communities surrounding our data centers,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at AWS.
Editing by Thu Huong Le and Lorenzo Kyle Subido
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