AWS (Osaka) Local Region expanded into a
standard AWS Region to accommodate an even greater variety of use
cases and serve Japan with even lower latency
Customers and AWS Partners across Japan welcome
the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, including Mitsubishi UFJ
Financial Group, KDDI Corporation, Sansan, NEC, and many more
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the launch of a second full region
in Japan, the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. The region is an
expansion of the existing AWS Osaka Local Region, which opened to
select customers in February 2018. The new region consists of three
Availability Zones (AZs) and joins the existing 25 Availability
Zones in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong
Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Globally, AWS has 80 Availability Zones across 25 geographic
regions, with plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five
more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and
Switzerland. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises,
as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can
leverage the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to run their
applications locally, serve end-users across Asia with lower
latency, and access the broadest and deepest suite of services
available in the cloud. For more information on AWS’s global
infrastructure, go to:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/.
“We launched the AWS Osaka Local Region to help select customers
run specific workloads in western Japan. Since then, customers have
asked AWS to launch a second full region with multiple Availability
Zones and broad service selection in the country, and today we're
excited to deliver on those requests,” said Peter DeSantis, Senior
Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, AWS.
“Together with the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, the AWS Asia
Pacific (Osaka) Region provides customers with even lower latency
to end users in Japan, as well as the ability to architect
workloads across multiple Availability Zones and multiple regions
in Japan for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and
availability.”
“Congratulations on the opening of AWS Osaka Region. The
government has adopted a "cloud-by-default” principle and basic
policy prioritizing the use of cloud services, and we welcome AWS
as a part of our services,” said Takuya Hirai, Member of the House
of Representatives and Minister of State for Digital
Transformation. “The mission of the Japan Digital Transformation
Agency, scheduled to be established in September 2021, is to think
about how systems should be run on the cloud in order to promote
standardization and interoperability, which are necessary for both
national and local governments to promote digitalization. In
cooperation with various companies, including AWS, we will do our
utmost to promote the digitalization of Japan.”
AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which place
infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with
enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event
impacting customers’ business continuity, yet near enough to
provide low latency for high availability applications. Each
Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical
security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency
networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design
their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones and across
multiple regions to achieve even greater fault tolerance.
Additionally, Japanese customers, from startups to enterprises and
the public sector, will have additional infrastructure to leverage
advanced technologies including compute, storage, analytics,
database, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile
services, and more to drive innovation. The launch of a second AWS
Region in Japan provides customers with even lower latency across
the country and supports disaster recovery applications for
business continuity.
Customers and AWS Partners welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific
(Osaka) Region
Millions of active customers use AWS each month in over 190
countries around the world, and hundreds of thousands of active
customers use AWS services in Japan each month to accelerate
innovation, increase agility, and drive cost savings. Organizations
across Japan moving their mission-critical workloads to the cloud
include customers such as Bellsystem24, Gibraltar Life Insurance,
KDDI, Kindai University, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nabtesco
Corporation, NRI, NTT East, OGIS-RI CO. ltd., Prudential Life
Insurance, Sony Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Tokio Marine
& Nichido Fire Insurance, and many more.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), whose business operations
include commercial banks, trust banks, securities, and credit
cards, adopted a cloud-first strategy and announced its full AWS
deployment in 2017. “We have been making steady progress in IT
architecture transformation and digitalization by leveraging AWS to
build new systems,” said Hiroki Kameda, Managing Corporate
Executive and Group CIO of MUFG. “AWS enabled us to build a big
data platform for all our bank and group data so that we can use it
flexibly, streamline administrative processes such as tremendous
data entry work using AI, migrate a part of a market risk
management system, and conduct applied research in more advanced AI
algorithms and other new technologies. We reduced large costs by
migrating and building a new system on AWS compared to on-premises.
We have been using the AWS Osaka Local Region, and its expansion
into the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will enable us to actively
run even more workloads and systems to enhance the agility and
availability of our customer services. With digital technology
playing an increasingly important role in our competitiveness, we
will continue to grow our digital workforce both quantitatively and
qualitatively to further drive our digital transformation.”
Sony Bank is an Internet bank established in 2001 as an asset
management bank for individuals. It provides various financial
services such as foreign currency deposits, home loans, investment
trusts, and debit cards. “Since the end of 2013, we have been
gradually migrating our general internal business systems and
banking peripheral systems onto AWS, and by the end of 2019,
approximately 80 percent of our systems had been running on AWS,”
said Tatsuya Fukushima, Executive Officer leading the System
Planning Department, System Development Department, and System
Administration Department of Sony Bank. “As a result,
infrastructure-related costs have been reduced by up to 60 percent
compared to on-premises systems, and infrastructure procurement and
construction time have been cut by more than half. We are currently
building a next-generation banking system on AWS with a
cloud-native architecture designed to ensure high availability by
utilizing the AWS services in both the Tokyo and Osaka regions, so
the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region is key to our future plans. As
an Internet bank, we will continue to improve management efficiency
and provide products and services that meet our customers’
needs.”
KDDI Corporation (KDDI), established in 2000, is engaged in
telecommunications, Internet, financial services, electricity
distribution, intelligent consumer appliances, and other businesses
both in Japan and overseas. KDDI started using AWS as its official
cloud vendor in 2016 after AWS met its stringent internal security
standards. “I am delighted that the AWS Osaka Local Region has
expanded into a full AWS Region in such a short time,” said Akihiro
Nakashima, Administrative Officer and Deputy General Manager,
Service Planning and Development Division, Solutions Business
Sector, KDDI Corporation. “KDDI currently develops and operates
more than 60 services on AWS, such as the back end for our power
supply business ‘au Denki’, ‘au Home’, which leverages IoT to make
everyday life more convenient, and the subsystem of ‘au PAY’, a
smartphone service that allows payment with QR codes. Leveraging
AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, we will be able to provide
additional business continuity services through multi-region
operations in Japan.”
Founded in 1983, OGIS-RI CO., ltd. is a global IT consulting
firm providing information strategy, systems integration, systems
development, network construction, support, and security solutions.
OGIS-RI CO., ltd. is a group company of Osaka Gas Group. “Osaka Gas
was the first in Japan to deploy IoT technology in consumer gas
appliances in April 2016 using AWS. We have since been selling ENE
FARM fuel cells, gas water heaters, and other products connected to
the Internet around the clock,” said Kosuke Nakatani, Director,
Executive Officer and Member of the Board, Head of IT Platform
Service Division, OGIS-RI CO., ltd., which develops and manages the
IT systems of Daigas Group (previously known as Osaka Gas Group)
companies. “We use AWS to provide our enterprise customers with
‘ekul,’ a simple data measurement service that measures and
visualizes gas and electricity usage in real time and transmits
information to corporate customers across the country. We also
provide cloud integration services based on our experience in the
migration of on-premises business systems to AWS and system
development on AWS. With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Region, we are very pleased to offer our customers in the Kansai
area a selection of multiple regions with low latency, enabling us
to have even greater availability.”
Sansan, established in 2007, is the provider of “SanSan,” a
corporate business card management cloud service, and “Eight,” a
business card app, under the mission of “creating innovation
through encounters.” Seita Fujikura, CTO of Sansan, said, "Business
cards are the proof of business encounters. SanSan and Eight solve
various issues that business people face by accurately converting
into data and utilizing the business cards that are captured every
day. Our applications are configured on several hundred Amazon EC2
instances. By utilizing a variety of AWS services, we are able to
substantially reduce costs and develop our products based on
customer requests. The AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will help us
further evolve our products and services and provide new value as a
business infrastructure.”
Founded in 1925, Kindai University provides learning to all ages
and is one of the largest universities in western Japan with 48
departments ranging from medicine to the arts with 52,000 students
enrolled. “Kindai University migrated our teaching system and all
17 cloud-enabled business systems to AWS from on-premises systems
in 2015 based on an estimation that the initial investment cost
would be reduced by about 70 percent and the total cost of initial
investment and running costs over 10 years would be reduced by
another 20 percent compared to on-premises systems,” said Takumi
Ueda, Educational and Administrative Information Systems Department
of Kindai University. “AWS enables us to provide a powerful, stable
system for our students and faculty, and the opening of the AWS
Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region gives us the opportunity to provide
increased availability and even lower latency.”
AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners welcomed the arrival of a
second AWS Region in Japan. The APN includes tens of thousands of
Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Systems Integrators (SI)
around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and
services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing business,
technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. SI Consulting
Partners supporting enterprise and public sector customers
migrating to AWS include Classmethod, CTC, FUJISOFT, iret, NEC, NTT
Data, SCSK, Serverworks and many others. APN ISVs in Japan
including Acroquest Technology, AptPod, Digital Cube, Hatena,
VMware, Works Human Intelligence, and many others, are already
using AWS to deliver their software to customers around the world
and will serve their Japanese customers from the AWS Asia Pacific
(Osaka) Region at launch. Customers can also easily find, trial,
deploy, and buy software solutions for AWS on the AWS Marketplace.
For the full list of the members of the AWS Partner Network, please
visit: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/.
NEC is an IT vendor that has been driving innovation in Japan
since 1899 and is a premier consulting partner in the APN. NEC has
a vision of creating a positive impact on society through
technological advances. “The inauguration of the AWS Asia Pacific
(Osaka) Region significantly broadens NEC’s service infrastructure
offering in Japan, and we are happy to help accelerate our
customers' innovation efforts,” said Toshifumi Yoshizaki, Senior
Vice President, NEC. “NEC has a long history as an AWS Partner,
having joined the AWS Partner Network in 2012 and becoming a
certified Premier Consulting Partner in 2016. In 2020, we became
the first company in Japan to embark on a strategic corporate-level
collaboration with AWS. This collaboration enabled us to provide
higher-level managed services to government and corporate customers
pursuing digital transformation. NEC Group will be increasing the
number of AWS-certified personnel to 3,000 over the next three
years and will continue to support large-scale cloud migration
projects by significantly strengthening its delivery
capabilities.”
VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service that brings
VMware’s enterprise-class software-defined data center software to
the AWS Cloud. Delivered as an on-demand service with optimized
access to AWS services, VMware Cloud on AWS enables IT teams to
leverage the best of both worlds. “AWS is VMware’s preferred public
cloud partner for all VMware vSphere-based workloads. And VMware
Cloud on AWS is the preferred AWS solution for vSphere workloads,”
said Tadashi Yamanaka, Vice President and General Manager, VMware
Japan. “We look forward to serving the needs of customers in Japan
with the expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS to the AWS Asia Pacific
(Osaka) Region. This expansion will provide our customers in
western Japan with more geographic diversity and disaster recovery
alternatives. Customers throughout the country will also gain more
flexibility to move their vSphere workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS
for application modernization, as well as improved agility, cost
and security.”
Works Human Intelligence Co., Ltd (Works HI), the provider of
COMPANY, one of the top HR Payroll ERP software package systems in
Japan, is an ISV Partner with AWS. "Works HI first adopted AWS in
2012 when we launched the cloud version of our software solution
COMPANY. We continue to modernize the architecture of the SaaS
version of COMPANY and enhance its functionality by making use of
the multitude of AWS services available in Japan." said Asahi
Morita, Product Division Senior General Manager at Works Human
Intelligence. “The opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
helps us support a greater number of customers with
mission-critical operations and business continuity support with
our COMPANY software solution by making it available across
multiple regions in Japan.”
Amazon’s Continued Investment in Japan
In March 2011, AWS launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
with two Availability Zones as the company’s fifth AWS Region. A
third Tokyo AZ was added in 2012 and fourth in 2018 to help
customers build highly available and fault-tolerant applications
across the region’s four existing AZs. In February 2018, AWS
launched the Osaka Local Region to enable compliance with
guidelines for applications that require even greater distance
between Availability Zones for select customers. As a response to
further customer demand for a standard region in western Japan,
today AWS is extending the capability of the Osaka Local Region by
expanding it into a standard AWS Region.
Amazon is also continuing to invest in the upskilling of local
developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in
Japan through programs such as AWS Academy and AWS Educate. AWS
Academy provides higher education institutions with a free,
ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum that prepares students to
pursue industry-recognized certifications and in-demand cloud jobs.
AWS Educate provides student access to AWS services and content
designed to build knowledge and skills in cloud computing.
About Amazon Web Services
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most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine
learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things
(IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR
and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic
regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and
five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and
Switzerland. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government
agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more
agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
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