We launched an AWS Area in Australia earlier this 12 months, 4 extra (Switzerland, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and India) in 2022, and are engaged on areas in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. All advised, we now have 99 Availability Zones unfold throughout 31 geographic areas.
Malaysia within the Works
Immediately I’m blissful to announce that we’re engaged on an AWS area in Malaysia. This area will give AWS prospects the flexibility to run workloads and retailer information that should stay in-country.
The area will embody three Availability Zones (AZs), each bodily unbiased of the others within the area but far sufficient aside to attenuate the danger that an AZ-level occasion may have on enterprise continuity. The AZs shall be linked to one another by high-bandwidth, low-latency community connections over devoted, fully-redundant fiber.
AWS in Malaysia
We’re planning to speculate at the least $6 Billion (25.5 billion Malaysian ringgit) in Malaysia by 2037.
Many organizations in Malaysia are already making use of the present AWS Areas. This consists of enterprise and public sector organizations reminiscent of Axiata Group, Baba Merchandise, Financial institution Islam Malaysia, Celcom Digi, PayNet, PETRONAS, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Asia Pacific College of Expertise & Innovation, Cybersecurity Malaysia, Division of Statistics Malaysia, Ministry of Larger Schooling Malaysia, and Pos Malaysia, and startups like Baba’s, BeEDucation Adventures, CARSOME, and StoreHub.
Right here’s a small pattern of among the thrilling and revolutionary work that our prospects are doing in Malaysia:
Johor Company (JCorp) is the principal improvement establishment that drives the expansion of the state of Johor’s financial system by its operations within the agribusiness, wellness, meals and eating places, and actual property and infrastructure sectors. To energy JCorp’s digital transformation and obtain the JCorp 3.0 reinvention plan objectives, the corporate is leveraging the AWS cloud to handle its information and functions, serving as a single supply of fact for its enterprise and operational data, and paving the way in which for the corporate to faucet on synthetic intelligence, machine studying and blockchain applied sciences sooner or later.
Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM), established in 1946, is the nationwide public broadcaster of Malaysia, bringing information, info, and leisure applications by its six free-to-air channels and 34 radio stations to hundreds of thousands of Malaysians each day. Bringing cutting-edge AWS applied sciences nearer to RTM in Malaysia will speed up the time it takes to develop new media companies, whereas delivering a greater viewer expertise with decrease latency.
Financial institution Islam, Malaysia’s first listed Islamic banking establishment, supplies end-to-end monetary options that meet the various wants of their prospects. The financial institution faucets AWS’ experience to energy its digital transformation and the event of Be U digital financial institution by its Centre of Digital Expertise, a stand-alone division that creates cutting-edge monetary companies on AWS to boost buyer experiences.
Malaysian Administrative Modernization Administration Planning Unit (MAMPU) encourages public sector companies to undertake cloud in all ICT tasks to be able to speed up rising applied sciences software and improve the effectivity of public service. MAMPU believes the institution of the AWS Area in Malaysia will additional speed up digitalization of the general public sector, and bolster efforts for public sector companies to ship superior citizen companies seamlessly.
Malaysia can be residence to each Unbiased Software program Distributors (ISVs) and Techniques Integrators which are members of the AWS Companion Community (APN). The ISV companions construct revolutionary options on AWS and the SIs present enterprise, technical, advertising, and go-to-market help to prospects. AWS Companions based mostly in Malaysia embody Axrail, eCloudvalley, Exabytes, G-AsiaPacific, GHL, Maxis, Radmik Options Sdn Bhd, Silverlake, Tapway, Fourtitude, and Wavelet.
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