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Amazon Web Services – one of the leaders in provision of cloud-based IT services – is expanding its infrastructure into Asia-Pacific to enable its customers to deploy compute and storage capacity in proximity of their clients in the area.
The expansion will begin with opening of several locations in Singapore during the first half of 2010 and additions in other areas in Asia in the following six months.
“Developers and businesses located in Asia, as well as those with a multi-national presence, have been eager for Asia-based infrastructure to minimize latency and optimize performance,” AWS VP Adam Selipsky said in a statement. “We’re very excited to announce the expansion of AWS infrastructure into Asia to help our customers plan their technology investments and better serve their end-users in Asia.”
Amazon services available at the time of the Singapore launch will include Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, SimpleDB, Relational Database Service, Simple Queue Service, Elastic MapReduce and CloudFront.
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Keywords: Amazon Web Services, AWS, EC2, cloud computing, Asia-Pacific | | 
