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Amazon Launches Infrastructure Region in Taiwan
June 05 2025 - 9:06PM
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The AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region gives customers more choice to run workloads and securely store data in Taiwan while serving end users with even lower latency
Active customers in Taiwan include 104 Corporation, 91APP, Acer, Cathay Financial Holdings, Chunghwa Telecom, CyberLink, Gamania Group, KKCompany, Modernity Financial Technologies (MaiCoin), Trend Micro, TSMC, Yahoo! TW Ecommerce, and many others innovating on AWS
Amazon plans to invest more than $5 billion in Taiwan to support the new Region
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. The new AWS Region will give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as education, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations, greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in Taiwan, ensuring that customers who want to keep their content onshore can do so. As part of its long-term commitment, Amazon is planning to invest more than $5 billion to support the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of its data centers in Taiwan. For more information about AWS Global Infrastructure, visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.
βThe new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will enable organizations of all sizes to build and scale with confidence using our comprehensive suite of cloud services, ranging from foundational compute and storage to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, all while meeting local data residency requirements,β said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS. βOrganizations across Taiwan, and across Asia Pacific, can now leverage the same global infrastructure that millions of businesses worldwide rely on, while benefitting from single-digit millisecond latency, to accelerate innovation, increase operational efficiency, drive business growth, and deliver better experiences for their end users.β
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