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Immediately, we’re saying {that a} new AWS Area will likely be coming to Taiwan by early 2025. The brand new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area will encompass three Availability Zones at launch, and can give AWS prospects in Taiwan the flexibility to run workloads and retailer knowledge that should stay in Taiwan.
Every of the Availability Zones will likely be bodily impartial of the others within the Area – shut sufficient to assist functions that want low latency, but sufficiently distant to considerably cut back the danger that an occasion at an Availability Zone stage may impression enterprise continuity.
The Availability Zones on this Area will likely be related collectively by way of high-bandwidth, low-latency community connections over devoted, totally redundant fiber. This connectivity helps functions that want synchronous replication between Availability Zones for availability or redundancy. You’ll be able to take a peek on the AWS International Infrastructure web page to study extra about how we design and construct Areas and Availability Zones.
We’re presently engaged on Areas in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The AWS Cloud operates 105 Availability Zones inside 33 AWS Areas around the globe, with introduced plans for 21 extra Availability Zones and 7 extra Areas, together with Taiwan.
AWS in Taiwan
AWS has been investing and supporting prospects and companions in Taiwan for greater than 10 years. To assist our prospects in Taiwan, we’ve got enterprise improvement groups, options architects, accomplice managers, skilled providers consultants, assist employees, and numerous different roles working in our Taipei workplace.
Different AWS infrastructure contains two Amazon CloudFront edge areas together with entry to the AWS international spine by way of a number of redundant submarine cables. You’ll be able to entry some other AWS Area (besides Beijing and Ningxia) from AWS Direct Join areas in Taipei, operated by Chief Telecom and Chunghwa Telecom. With AWS Direct Join, your knowledge that may have beforehand been transported over the web is delivered by way of a non-public community connection between your amenities and AWS.
You may as well use AWS Outposts in Taiwan, a household of totally managed options delivering AWS infrastructure and providers to just about any on-premises or edge location for a very constant hybrid expertise. With AWS Native Zones in Taipei, you may ship functions that require single-digit millisecond latency to finish customers.
AWS continues to spend money on upskilling college students, native builders and technical professionals, nontechnical professionals, and the following era of IT leaders in Taiwan by way of choices like AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Talent Builder. Since 2017, AWS has skilled greater than eight million folks throughout the Asia Pacific-Japan area on cloud expertise, together with greater than 100,000 folks in Taiwan.
To study extra, be a part of AWS Summit 2024 Taiwan in July; in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS.
AWS prospects in Taiwan
AWS prospects in Taiwan have been more and more shifting their functions to AWS and operating their expertise infrastructure in different AWS Areas around the globe. With the addition of this new AWS Area, prospects will be capable of present even decrease latency to finish customers and use superior applied sciences resembling generative synthetic intelligence (generative AI), Web of Issues (IoT), cellular providers, and extra, to drive innovation. This Area will give AWS prospects the flexibility to run their workloads and retailer their content material in Taiwan.
Listed below are some examples of consumers utilizing AWS to drive innovation:
Chunghwa Telecom is the most important built-in telecom supplier in Taiwan. To enhance AI knowledge safety and governance, they use Amazon Bedrock for a wide range of generative AI functions, together with mechanically producing specs paperwork for the software program improvement lifecycle and crafting customized advertising and marketing campaigns. With Amazon Bedrock, Chunghwa Telecom is saving developer hours and has additionally developed an immersive, interactive digital English trainer for the primary time.
Gamania Group is a frontrunner within the improvement and publication of on-line video games in Taiwan. To maximise the worth of operating on AWS, they labored with AWS Coaching and Certification to reinforce AWS expertise throughout all of its departments, resembling AWS Classroom coaching, AWS Nicely-Architected Framework, and AWS GameDay occasions. Consequently, they lowered the time wanted to make vital operational selections by 50 p.c, lowered its time-to-market by as much as 70 p.c, and accelerated the launch of latest video games.
KKCompany Applied sciences is a multimedia expertise group constructing a music streaming platform, AI-powered streaming answer, and cloud intelligence service in Taiwan. The corporate makes a speciality of generative AI, multimedia expertise, and digital transformation consulting providers for enterprises in Taiwan and Japan. You could find BlendVision, a cloud-based streaming answer in AWS Market.
To study extra about Taiwan buyer circumstances, go to AWS Buyer Success Tales in English or our Conventional Chinese language web page.
Keep Tuned
We’ll announce the opening of this and the opposite Areas in future weblog posts, so you’ll want to keep tuned! To study extra, go to the AWS Area in Taiwan web page in Conventional Chinese language.
— Channy
