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In March of final yr, Jeff Barr introduced the plan for an AWS Area in Malaysia. Right this moment, I’m happy to share the overall availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Area with three Availability Zones and API identify ap-southeast-5.
The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Area is the primary infrastructure Area in Malaysia and the thirteenth Area in Asia Pacific, becoming a member of the prevailing Asia Pacific Areas in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo and the Mainland China Beijing and Ningxia Areas.
The Petronas Twin Towers within the coronary heart of Kuala Lumpur’s central enterprise district.
The brand new AWS Area in Malaysia will play a pivotal function in supporting the Malaysian authorities’s strategic Madani Financial system Framework. This initiative goals to enhance the dwelling requirements of all Malaysians by 2030 whereas supporting innovation in Malaysia and throughout ASEAN. The development and operation of the brand new AWS Area is estimated so as to add roughly $12.1 billion (MYR 57.3 billion) to Malaysia’s gross home product (GDP) and can help a median of greater than 3,500 full-time equal jobs at exterior companies yearly by means of 2038.
The AWS Area in Malaysia will assist to satisfy the excessive demand for cloud providers whereas supporting innovation in Malaysia and throughout Southeast Asia.
AWS in Malaysia
In 2016, Amazon Net Companies (AWS) established a presence with its first AWS workplace in Malaysia. Since then, AWS has offered steady investments in infrastructure and expertise to assist drive digital transformations in Malaysia in help of lots of of 1000’s of lively prospects every month.
Amazon CloudFront – In 2017, AWS introduced the launch of the primary edge location in Malaysia, which helps enhance efficiency and availability for finish customers. Right this moment, there are 4 Amazon CloudFront areas in Malaysia.
AWS Direct Join – To proceed serving to our prospects in Malaysia enhance utility efficiency, safe information, and cut back networking prices, in 2017, AWS introduced the opening of extra Direct Join areas in Malaysia. Right this moment, there are two AWS Direct Join areas in Malaysia.
AWS Outposts – As a totally managed service that extends AWS infrastructure and AWS providers, AWS Outposts is good for purposes that have to run on-premises to satisfy low latency necessities. Since 2020, prospects in Malaysia have been capable of order AWS Outposts to be put in at their datacenters and on-premises areas.
AWS prospects in Malaysia
Cloud adoption in Malaysia has been steadily gaining momentum in recent times. Listed below are some examples of AWS prospects in Malaysia and the way they’re utilizing AWS for numerous workloads:
PayNet – PayNet is Malaysia’s nationwide funds community and shared central infrastructure for the monetary market in Malaysia. PayNet makes use of AWS to run crucial nationwide cost workloads, together with the MyDebit on-line cashless funds system and e-payment reporting.
Pos Malaysia Berhad (Pos Malaysia) – Pos Malaysia is the nationwide submit and parcel service supplier, holding the only mandate to ship providers underneath the common postal service obligation for Malaysia. They migrated crucial purposes to AWS, which elevated their enterprise agility and talent to ship enhanced buyer experiences. Additionally, they scaled their compute capability to deal with deliveries to greater than 11 million addresses and a community of greater than 3,500 retail touchpoints utilizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (Amazon EBS), making certain disruption-free providers.
Deriv – Deriv, one of many world’s largest on-line brokers, is utilizing Amazon Q Enterprise to extend productiveness, effectivity, and innovation in its operations throughout buyer help, advertising and marketing, and recruiting departments. With Amazon Q Enterprise, Deriv has been capable of enhance productiveness and cut back onboarding time by 45 p.c.
Asia Pacific College – As one of many main tech universities in Malaysia, Asia Pacific College (APU) makes use of AWS serverless expertise similar to Lambda to scale back operational prices. The automated scalability of AWS providers has led to excessive availability and sooner deployment that guarantee APU’s purposes and providers are accessible to the scholars and employees always, enhancing the general person expertise.
Aerodyne – Aerodyne Group is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Information Tech, and Digital Transformation) options supplier of drone-based enterprise options. They’re working their DRONOS software program as a service (SaaS) platform on AWS to assist drone operators worldwide develop their companies.
Constructing cloud abilities collectively
AWS and numerous organizations in Malaysia have been working carefully to construct obligatory cloud abilities for builders in Malaysia. Listed below are a number of the initiatives:
Program AKAR powered by AWS re/Begin – Program AKAR is the primary monetary services-aligned cloud abilities program initiated by AWS and PayNet. This new program goals to bridge the rising abilities hole in Malaysia’s digital financial system by equipping college college students with transferrable abilities for careers within the sector. As a part of this preliminary collaboration, PayNet, AWS re/Begin, and WEPS have dedicated to beginning this system with 100 college students in 2024, with the primary 50 from Asia Pacific College serving as a pilot.
AWS Academy — AWS Academy goals to bridge the hole between {industry} and academia by getting ready college students for industry-recognized certifications and careers within the cloud with a free and ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum. AWS Academy presently runs programs in 48 Malaysian universities, overlaying numerous domains. Since 2018, 23,000 college students have been educated by means of this program.
AWS Expertise Guild at PETRONAS – PETRONAS, a worldwide vitality and options supplier with a presence in over 50 nations, has been an AWS buyer since 2014. AWS can be collaborating with PETRONAS to coach their staff utilizing the AWS Expertise Guild program.
AWS’s contribution to sustainability in Malaysia
With The Local weather Pledge, Amazon is dedicated to reaching net-zero carbon throughout its enterprise by 2040 and is on a path to powering its operations with 100% renewable vitality by 2025.
In September 2023, AWS introduced its collaboration with Petronas and Gentari, a worldwide clear vitality firm, to speed up sustainability and decarbonization efforts within the international vitality transition. Shortly after, in December 2023, AWS buyer PKT Logistics Group grew to become the primary Malaysian firm to affix over 300 international corporations in The Local weather Pledge to speed up the world’s path to net-zero carbon.
In July 2024, AWS and Zero Waste Administration collaborated on the first-ever AWS InCommunities Malaysia initiative, Inexperienced Wira Programme, to coach educators to construct sustainability initiatives in colleges to advance Malaysia’s sustainable future.
Amazon is dedicated to investing and innovating throughout its companies to assist create a extra sustainable future.
Issues to know
AWS Neighborhood in Malaysia – Malaysia can be house to 1 AWS Hero, 9 AWS Neighborhood Builders and about 9,000 group members of three AWS Person Teams in numerous cities in Malaysia. In the event you’re serious about becoming a member of AWS Person Teams Malaysia, go to their Meetup and Fb pages.
AWS International footprint – With this launch, AWS now spans 108 Availability Zones inside 34 geographic Areas all over the world. Now we have additionally introduced plans for 18 extra Availability Zones and 6 extra AWS Areas in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Out there now – The brand new Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Area is able to help your online business, and you could find an in depth record of the providers accessible on this Area on the AWS Companies by Area web page.
To be taught extra, please go to the AWS International Infrastructure web page, and begin constructing on ap-southeast-5!
Comfortable constructing!
— Donnie