Now open — AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
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In March of last year, Jeff Barr announced the plan for an AWS Region in Malaysia. Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-5.
The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region is the first infrastructure Region in Malaysia and the thirteenth Region in Asia Pacific, joining the existing Asia Pacific Regions in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo and the Mainland China Beijing and Ningxia Regions.
The Petronas Twin Towers in the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s central business district.
The new AWS Region in Malaysia will play a pivotal role in supporting the Malaysian government’s strategic Madani Economy Framework. This initiative aims to improve the living standards of all Malaysians by 2030 while supporting innovation in Malaysia and across ASEAN. The construction and operation of the new AWS Region is estimated to add approximately $12.1 billion (MYR 57.3 billion) to Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) and will support an average of more than 3,500 full-time equivalent jobs at external businesses annually through 2038.
The AWS Region in Malaysia will help to meet the high demand for cloud services while supporting innovation in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia.
AWS in Malaysia
In 2016, Amazon Web Services (AWS) established a presence with its first AWS office in Malaysia. Since then, AWS has provided continuous investments in infrastructure and technology to help drive digital transformations in Malaysia in support of hundreds of thousands of active customers each month.
Amazon CloudFront – In 2017, AWS announced the launch of the first edge location in Malaysia, which helps improve performance and availability for end users. Today, there are four Amazon CloudFront locations in Malaysia.
AWS Direct Connect – To continue helping our customers in Malaysia improve application performance, secure data, and reduce networking costs, in 2017, AWS announced the opening of additional Direct Connect locations in Malaysia. Today, there are two AWS Direct Connect locations in Malaysia.
AWS Outposts – As a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure and AWS services, AWS Outposts is ideal for applications that need to run on-premises to meet low latency requirements. Since 2020, customers in Malaysia have been able to order AWS Outposts to be installed at their datacenters and on-premises locations.
AWS customers in Malaysia
Cloud adoption in Malaysia has been steadily gaining momentum in recent years. Here are some examples of AWS customers in Malaysia and how they are using AWS for various workloads:
PayNet – PayNet is Malaysia’s national payments network and shared central infrastructure for the financial market in Malaysia. PayNet uses AWS to run critical national payment workloads, including...
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