Priscilla Chong

The race to AI dominance is heating up especially in the SEA region. Amazon Web Services (AWS) will spend $12B over the next 4 years to expand cloud infrastructure in Singapore. https://lnkd.in/gXeApvHj Exciting news for Singapore's talent pool that are already leveraging cloud computing services and are also expecting to drive growth in GenAI services. #AI #Cloud #News #Singapore

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📉 The cost of not being on the marketplace? It’s bigger than you think! Everyone’s moving there, and staying behind means you’re losing out. Don’t believe me? Check out these insights from Canalys! Now’s the time to start building your channels and mastering the marketplace—it doesn’t happen overnight. 👎 Saying no to hyperscaler marketplaces means missing out on revenue, cash incentives, and a chance to reach a global audience.🌍 If you’ve got sales in your pipeline, let’s chat! We’ll show you how to convert those through the Microsoft Marketplace, whether you’re ready or not. Don’t wait until it’s too late—get in touch with WeTransact and learn how to make it happen.💸 #MarketplaceGrowth  #ISV #Startup #BDM #DigitalMarketplaces #MicrosoftPartners

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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys supports 6 additional AWS Regions Three-node Multi-AZ DB Cluster is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (UAE), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. This deployment option supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy or any one of the open-source AWS Advanced JDBC Driver, PgBouncer, or ProxySQL. https://lnkd.in/g9D9RGVB #Amazon #RDS #PostgreSQL #MySQL

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AWS Summits are events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about #AWS. And this year, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the AWS Summit in Singapore! #AWSPartnerSummit2024 brought the #awspartnernetwork together. This year we paid tribute to what we have accomplished together and shared the vision of our ‘Partners Everywhere’ strategy. Our ambition is to have partners engaged with all our customers to accelerate business innovation and transformation at scale. And at #AWSSummitSingapore2024, we announced our flagship program AWS AI Spring, a multifaceted collaboration with the Singapore Government, public sector organizations, and enterprises to help accelerate the adoption of AI and generative AI in Singapore 🇸🇬 Underpinning this commitment are AWS’s plans to invest an additional S$12 billion into its existing cloud infrastructure in Singapore from 2024 to 2028. Without a doubt, Generative AI emerged as the undeniable focal point at this year's Summits. Many thanks to Gene Tan, Kaythaya Maw, Ally Huchro, Christine Ang, and Tan James. I had the pleasure of hosting panel discussions with these talented individuals - to learn how they are harnessing cloud and GenAI for public good. 👍 These are still very early days for #GenAI, there is so much more to be invented and iterated upon. Onward and upward!

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As we approach Merdeka month, let's celebrate the significant investments made by leading tech conglomerates in Malaysia this year. Other announcements made in 2024 that are shaping the future of our nation: 1. Google Invests US$2 Billion in Malaysia, Expected to Create 26,500 Jobs by 2030 - https://lnkd.in/g7QQz8k3 2. Microsoft to Build AI Centre in Malaysia as Part of US$2.2 Billion Investment - https://lnkd.in/ggc5MU-J 3. Equinix Invests RM23 Million to Bolster Malaysian Data Center Capacity - https://lnkd.in/gqRMdaNJ 4. TikTok owner ByteDance to expand Malaysia data center footprint in $2.1bn AI deal - https://lnkd.in/gFH-xzcn More to come. #MalaysiaBoleh! Happy Merdeka 🇲🇾 #FDI #ForeignInvestments #TechInvestments

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Hybrid Cloud expected to reach 262 billion U.S. dollars in 2027. Over this period, the Asia Pacific region is expected to grow at the highest rate.

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It was inspiring to see the incredible energy, innovation, and momentum at this year's AWS Summits across Asia-Pacific and Japan. Thousands of our customers and partners joined us at these events, eager to learn how they can leverage the power of the AWS Cloud to transform countries, customers, and communities. From the launch of game-changing services like Amazon Bedrock in Japan in October 2023, India in May 2024, to major new investments and customer announcements, it was clear that the future in APJ is incredibly bright and brimming with immense potential. Our customers across the region are leveraging AWS cloud technology in incredible ways to solve complex challenges, accelerate innovation, and deliver better experiences, and I’m very proud of how AWS is significantly investing in APJ to support this innovation and growth:   In Singapore, AWS will invest an additional S$12 billion ($9 billion) by 2028, doubling our total planned investment in the country to over S$23 billion ($17 billion). In South Korea, we announced plans to invest KRW 7.85 trillion ($5.88 billion) by 2027 to expand our cloud infrastructure, contributing KRW 15.06 trillion ($11.28 billion) to the country's GDP and supporting an estimated 12,325 local jobs annually. In Thailand, we announced a THB190 billion ($5 billion) investment by 2037 to launch a new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region in early 2025. In Australia, AWS has invested over AU$9.1 billion ($6.06 billion) in the Sydney Region since 2012, and plans to invest an additional AU$13.2 billion ($8.8 billion) in Sydney and Melbourne by 2027. This is estimated to contribute AU$35 billion to Australia's GDP and support 11,000 local jobs. In Japan, we announced a plan to invest 2.26 trillion yen ($14.96 billion) into our Tokyo and Osaka Regions from 2023 to 2027. This investment is expected to boost Japan's GDP by 5.57 trillion yen and create over 30,500 direct and indirect jobs annually. And in India, our planned $12.7 billion investment by 2030 will contribute $23.3 billion to the country's GDP by 2030 and support approximately 131,700 full-time jobs annually at local businesses.   Across the APJ region, we saw over 140,000 attendees – both in-person and virtual – come together to learn, innovate, and grow their businesses at our AWS Summits in APJ. This aligns perfectly with our purpose-driven mission at AWS to catalyse our customers, partners, and colleagues to solve the biggest challenges and unlock new possibilities. I'm excited to see what we can accomplish together in the year ahead as we continue to help our customers achieve cultural transformation by harnessing the innovative potential of the AWS Cloud.  

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Achieving Singapore’s National AI Strategy (NAIS) will require more than just chips or code. It’s going to take the best of both. NAIS aims to build scalable, impactful AI solutions – as do we. Both ServiceNow and NVIDIA have committed to helping the government advance NAIS in various ways – from creating a new supercomputer in Singapore, to enabling the seamless delivery of critical e-government services that uplifts customer and citizen experience. It’s a long road ahead but collaboration between different industry leaders and government allows us to expand our capabilities far beyond the sum of our parts. Last year, we partnered with NVIDIA to create powerful enterprise-grade, AI-driven workflow automation. This year, we’ve brought digital avatars to life with GenAI – heralding productivity gains that Singapore could well take advantage of. Check out how we put a face to AI-assisted interaction with NVIDIA: http://spr.ly/60469D75G #GenAI #PutAItoWork

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Yesterday we announced the launch of AWS AI Spring, a comprehensive initiative to support Singapore’s NAIS 2.0. This along with our investment announcement into Singapore will be a very exciting push forward to drive adoption of AI and Cloud. But what is more important is the benefits this brings to our customers and our partners where AI will be the central focus of our time. Looking forward to work with all our partners and customers to innovate and create with AI. #aws #aispring #generativeai

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In today's fast-paced digital world, the need for speed is paramount for financial services institutions (FSIs 🏦). As they embrace cloud-native practices to stay competitive, it's crucial to adopt modern observability practices to ensure they can move quickly and safely. Join me in this webinar to learn how Grafana is helping both traditional FSIs and emerging players like digital-only, neo banks and fintechs strike the right balance between innovation and control.  Click here to register: https://lnkd.in/gM3p6crH #GrafanaCloud #FinancialServices #Observability #SRE #CloudNative #DevOps #Microservices

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Just finished the course “Google Cloud Digital Leader Cert Prep: 1 Digital Transformation with Google Cloud” by Google Cloud! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/giXecNqZ #digitaltransformation #googlecloudplatform.

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We’re proud to be recognised by AWS as their ASEAN Global Software Partner of the Year 🍾 🎉 This award is a testament to our commitment to helping customers innovate through intelligent technologies, and intuitive user experiences. Check out my latest blog for more details on how MongoDB is demystifying AI and building next-gen apps with industry leaders like AWS through the recently launched MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP). #MongoDB #AI #AWS

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AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, https://lnkd.in/easMRZqh 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. #cloud #data #storage

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AWS continue expanding choice for customers by launching the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Way to go AWS! I increasingly find the wider economic impacts of these launches the most interesting. The planned $6.2 billion investment by AWS is estimated to add approximately $12.1 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. As our LP says, "Success and scale bring broad responsibility" https://lnkd.in/eFbqHbPd https://lnkd.in/eEYxF3zB

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I just completed AWS APAC's Solutions Architecture on @[Forage](urn:li:organization:68514998). In the simulation I: * Designed and simple and scalable hosting architecture based on Elastic Beanstalk for a client experiencing significant growth and slow response times. * Described my proposed architecture in plain language ensuring my client understood how it works and how costs will be calculated for it. Check out the simulation here: https://lnkd.in/g-hZZKWh #forage #AWS

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I just completed AWS APAC's Solutions Architecture on @[Forage](urn:li:organization:68514998). In the simulation I:  * Designed and simple and scalable hosting architecture based on Elastic   Beanstalk for a client experiencing significant growth and slow response   times.  * Described my proposed architecture in plain language ensuring my client   understood how it works and how costs will be calculated for it.

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I just completed AWS APAC's Solutions Architecture on @[Forage](urn:li:organization:68514998). In the simulation I:  * Designed and simple and scalable hosting architecture based on Elastic   Beanstalk for a client experiencing significant growth and slow response   times.  * Described my proposed architecture in plain language ensuring my client   understood how it works and how costs will be calculated for it. Check out the simulation here: https://lnkd.in/gQNYz2PC

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