September 11, 2024
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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 instructed, we now have 99 Availability Zones unfold throughout 31 geographic areas.

Malaysia within the Works
At this time I’m completely happy to announce that we’re engaged on an AWS area in Malaysia. This area will give AWS prospects the power 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 reduce the danger that an AZ-level occasion may have on enterprise continuity. The AZs shall be related to one another by high-bandwidth, low-latency community connections over devoted, fully-redundant fiber.

AWS in Malaysia
We’re planning to speculate no less than $6 Billion (25.5 billion Malaysian ringgit) in Malaysia by 2037.

Many organizations in Malaysia are already making use of the prevailing AWS Areas. This contains enterprise and public sector organizations equivalent to Axiata Group, Baba Products, Bank Islam Malaysia, Celcom Digi, PayNet, PETRONAS, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Cybersecurity Malaysia, Department of Statistics Malaysia, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, and Pos Malaysia, and startups like Baba’s, BeEDucation Adventures, CARSOME, and StoreHub.

Right here’s a small pattern of a number of the thrilling and revolutionary work that our prospects are doing in Malaysia:

Johor Corporation (JCorp) is the principal improvement establishment that drives the expansion of the state of Johor’s economic 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 purposes, serving as a single supply of reality for its enterprise and operational information, 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 packages 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 providers, whereas delivering a greater viewer expertise with decrease latency.

Bank Islam, Malaysia’s first listed Islamic banking establishment, supplies end-to-end monetary options that meet the varied 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 providers on AWS to reinforce buyer experiences.

Malaysian Administrative Modernization Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) encourages public sector companies to undertake cloud in all ICT tasks so as to speed up rising applied sciences utility 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 providers seamlessly.

Malaysia can be house to each Impartial Software program Distributors (ISVs) and Techniques Integrators which can be members of the AWS Associate Community (APN). The ISV companions construct revolutionary options on AWS and the SIs present enterprise, technical, advertising and marketing, and go-to-market assist to prospects. AWS Companions based mostly in Malaysia embody Axrail, eCloudvalley, Exabytes, G-AsiaPacific, GHL, Maxis, Radmik Solutions Sdn Bhd, Silverlake, Tapway, Fourtitude, and Wavelet.

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