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As we speak, we’re asserting {that a} new AWS Area can 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 clients in Taiwan the power to run workloads and retailer information that should stay in Taiwan.
Every of the Availability Zones can be bodily impartial of the others within the Area – shut sufficient to assist functions that want low latency, but sufficiently distant to considerably scale back the chance that an occasion at an Availability Zone degree would possibly impression enterprise continuity.
The Availability Zones on this Area can be linked collectively via high-bandwidth, low-latency community connections over devoted, absolutely 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 be taught extra about how we design and construct Areas and Availability Zones.
We’re at the moment 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 world wide, with introduced plans for 21 extra Availability Zones and 7 extra Areas, together with Taiwan.
AWS in Taiwan
AWS has been investing and supporting clients and companions in Taiwan for greater than 10 years. To assist our clients in Taiwan, now we have enterprise growth groups, options architects, companion managers, skilled companies consultants, assist workers, and numerous different roles working in our Taipei workplace.
Different AWS infrastructure consists of two Amazon CloudFront edge areas together with entry to the AWS world spine via a number of redundant submarine cables. You’ll be able to entry every 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 information that may have beforehand been transported over the web is delivered via a non-public community connection between your services and AWS.
You may also use AWS Outposts in Taiwan, a household of absolutely managed options delivering AWS infrastructure and companies to nearly any on-premises or edge location for a really constant hybrid expertise. With AWS Native Zones in Taipei, you possibly can ship functions that require single-digit millisecond latency to finish customers.
AWS continues to put money into upskilling college students, native builders and technical professionals, nontechnical professionals, and the following technology of IT leaders in Taiwan via choices like AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Ability Builder. Since 2017, AWS has educated greater than eight million folks throughout the Asia Pacific-Japan area on cloud abilities, together with greater than 100,000 folks in Taiwan.
To be taught extra, be part of AWS Summit 2024 Taiwan in July; in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS.
AWS clients in Taiwan
AWS clients in Taiwan have been more and more shifting their functions to AWS and operating their expertise infrastructure in different AWS Areas world wide. With the addition of this new AWS Area, clients will be capable of present even decrease latency to finish customers and use superior applied sciences reminiscent of generative synthetic intelligence (generative AI), Web of Issues (IoT), cell companies, and extra, to drive innovation. This Area will give AWS clients the power 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 biggest built-in telecom supplier in Taiwan. To enhance AI information safety and governance, they use Amazon Bedrock for a wide range of generative AI functions, together with routinely producing specs paperwork for the software program growth 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 pacesetter within the growth 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 boost AWS abilities throughout all of its departments, reminiscent of AWS Classroom coaching, AWS Nicely-Architected Framework, and AWS GameDay occasions. Consequently, they lowered the time wanted to make essential operational selections by 50 %, lowered its time-to-market by as much as 70 %, 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 companies for enterprises in Taiwan and Japan. Yow will discover BlendVision, a cloud-based streaming answer in AWS Market.
To be taught 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 be sure you keep tuned! To be taught extra, go to the AWS Area in Taiwan web page in Conventional Chinese language.
— Channy