Amazon Web Services expands its reach in Asia with Third Availability Zone in Singapore
Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced the opening of a third Availability Zone in the AWS Asia-Pacific (Singapore) Region to support the rapid growth of the AWS customer base in Asia-Pacific. The new Availability Zone will allow customers already using AWS with more choice, flexibility, and even higher reliability.
According to the company, Availability Zones refer to technology infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting availability, yet near enough for business continuity applications that require rapid failover. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is connected to national backbone networks via high-speed fiber-optic networks. AWS customers focussed on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even higher fault-tolerance. AWS also provides Amazon CloudFront services at edge locations in Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Singapore for customers looking to deliver websites, applications, and content to end-users with lower latency.
“Responding to demand from local customers and Amazon Partner Network (APN) Partners, AWS is increasing its commitment to the fast-growing Southeast Asia region by opening a third Availability Zone. So AWS customers have another local option where they can run mission-critical workloads and store data,” said Nick Walton, Managing Director, ASEAN, Amazon Web Services. “For many years, an enthusiastic base of customers across Southeast Asia has chosen to build their businesses on AWS because it offers more functionality than other cloud platforms, including a wide array of database, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning technologies, as well as an extensive APN Partner and customer ecosystem, and unmatched maturity, security, and performance.”
APN Partners across Asia-Pacific also welcomed the expansion of the AWS Asia-Pacific (Singapore) Region. The APN includes tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world, with APN Partner participation in Asia growing significantly during the past 12 months. APN Partners build innovative solutions and services on the AWS Cloud. The APN network provides partners with business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market (GTM) support. “We are excited about the launch of the third AWS Availability Zone in the AWS Singapore Region,” said Varoon D. Rajani, CEO of BlazeClan Technologies, an award-winning APN Partner. “This will allow customers in Singapore and across South-East Asia to leverage additional capacity and flexibility to build scalable and highly available applications.”
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