Within the Works – AWS Area in Taiwan

In the present day, we’re asserting {that a} new AWS Area shall 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 power to run workloads and retailer knowledge that should stay in Taiwan.

Every of the Availability Zones shall be bodily unbiased of the others within the Area – shut sufficient to help purposes that want low latency, but sufficiently distant to considerably cut back the danger that an occasion at an Availability Zone stage may affect enterprise continuity.

The Availability Zones on this Area shall be related collectively by means of high-bandwidth, low-latency community connections over devoted, absolutely redundant fiber. This connectivity helps purposes that want synchronous replication between Availability Zones for availability or redundancy. You may take a peek on the AWS World 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 help our prospects in Taiwan, now we have enterprise growth groups, options architects, companion managers, skilled companies consultants, help workers, and varied different roles working in our Taipei workplace.

Different AWS infrastructure consists of two Amazon CloudFront edge places together with entry to the AWS world spine by means of a number of redundant submarine cables. You may entry another AWS Area (besides Beijing and Ningxia) from AWS Direct Join places 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 means of a non-public community connection between your amenities 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 very constant hybrid expertise. With AWS Native Zones in Taipei, you may ship purposes 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 subsequent technology of IT leaders in Taiwan by means of choices like AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Talent 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 study extra, be part of AWS Summit 2024 Taiwan in July; in-person occasions that carry 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 purposes to AWS and working their expertise infrastructure in different AWS Areas around the globe. With the addition of this new AWS Area, prospects will be capable to present even decrease latency to finish customers and use superior applied sciences similar to generative synthetic intelligence (generative AI), Web of Issues (IoT), cell companies, and extra, to drive innovation. This Area will give AWS prospects 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 knowledge safety and governance, they use Amazon Bedrock for quite a lot of generative AI purposes, together with robotically producing specs paperwork for the software program growth lifecycle and crafting customized advertising campaigns. With Amazon Bedrock, Chunghwa Telecom is saving developer hours and has additionally developed an immersive, interactive digital English instructor 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 working on AWS, they labored with AWS Coaching and Certification to boost AWS abilities throughout all of its departments, similar to AWS Classroom coaching, AWS Effectively-Architected Framework, and AWS GameDay occasions. Consequently, they lowered the time wanted to make essential operational choices 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 companies for enterprises in Taiwan and Japan. Yow will discover 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 make sure you keep tuned! To study extra, go to the AWS Area in Taiwan web page in Conventional Chinese language.

— Channy