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Right this moment, Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) introduced that AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area is usually accessible with three Availability Zones and Area code ap-east-2. The brand new Area brings AWS infrastructure and providers nearer to clients in Taiwan.
Skyline of Taipei together with the Taipei 101 constructing
As the primary infrastructure Area in Taipei and the fifteenth Area in Asia Pacific, the brand new Area expands the AWS world footprint to 117 Availability Zones throughout 37 geographic Areas worldwide. The brand new AWS Area will assist builders, startups, and enterprises, in addition to training, leisure, monetary providers, healthcare, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations run their functions and serve finish customers whereas sustaining knowledge residency in Taiwan.
AWS in Taiwan
AWS has maintained a presence in Taiwan for greater than a decade, beginning with the opening of the AWS Taipei workplace in 2014. Since then, AWS has launched many infrastructure choices in Taiwan together with:
In 2014, AWS launched the primary Amazon CloudFront edge location and added one other in 2018, providing clients a safe and environment friendly content material supply community for accelerating knowledge, video, utility, and API supply worldwide.
In 2018, AWS established two AWS Direct Join areas in Taiwan to reinforce connectivity choices. With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area, we’ve added a brand new Direct Join location in Taiwan to supply clients with increased pace and bandwidth.
In 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts in Taiwan, serving to clients seamlessly lengthen AWS infrastructure and providers to their on-premises or edge areas for a constant hybrid expertise.
In 2022, AWS launched AWS Native Zone in Taipei to assist low-latency functions requiring single-digit millisecond responsiveness.
Right this moment, with the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area, we additional strengthen our dedication to assist innovation in Taiwan. Organizations in regulated industries will have the ability to retailer knowledge regionally whereas sustaining full management over knowledge location and motion. From high-tech manufacturing to semiconductor corporations and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), companies will achieve entry to the scalable infrastructure wanted for development and innovation.
AWS clients in Taiwan
Organizations throughout Taiwan are already utilizing AWS to innovate and ship differentiated experiences to their clients, for instance:
Cathay Monetary Holdings (CFH) is a frontrunner in monetary know-how in Taiwan. It repeatedly introduces the newest know-how to create a full-scenario monetary service ecosystem. Since 2021, CFH has constructed a cloud atmosphere on AWS that strengthens its safety management and meets compliance necessities.
“Cathay Monetary Holdings will proceed to speed up digital transformation within the trade, additionally enhance the soundness, safety, timeliness, and scalability of our monetary providers,” stated Marcus Yao, senior government vice chairman of CFH. “With the brand new AWS Area in Taiwan, CFH is predicted to supply clients with much more numerous and handy monetary providers.”
Gamania Group is revolutionizing the leisure panorama by integrating AI with superstar IP by their progressive Vyin AI platform. Gamania utilized the strong and scalable infrastructure of AWS to develop safe, responsive AI interactions.
Benjamin Chen, chief technique officer and head of Innovation Lab, stated: “The core aim of Vyin AI is to create a digital identification that’s totally interactive, lifelike, and secure to make use of. This calls for applied sciences which might be steady, responsive, and safe. To that finish, we depend on the strong and resilient cloud infrastructure of AWS, and look ahead to the low-latency benefits provided by the AWS Area in Taiwan. AWS supplies a extremely steady and safe atmosphere for Vyin AI to supply customers with safe and AI hallucination free interactions. AWS Cloud providers enable us to focus extra on core AI know-how innovation and the enhancement of the ‘hyper-personalized interactive’ consumer expertise, thereby accelerating product iteration and optimization.”
Chunghwa Telecom is a frontrunner in cloud community providers in Taiwan with the broadest mainstream 5G bandwidth, distinctive community pace, and globally acknowledged cell web capabilities. Chunghwa Telecom makes use of generative AI platforms reminiscent of Amazon Bedrock to construct progressive providers and create clever functions for numerous industries.
Dr. Rong-Shy Lin, president of CHT, acknowledged: “With the launch of the AWS Area in Taiwan, CHT’s partnership with AWS has entered a brand new section. We’ll deepen the mixing of key benefits of the AWS Area, reminiscent of low latency and native knowledge storage, combining them with CHT’s intensive spine community, wealthy cloud expertise, {and professional} staff that has obtained a number of AWS Competency certifications. This can enable CHT to supply options that meet strict safety and compliance necessities for presidency, monetary, essential infrastructure, and extremely regulated industries. On the similar time, we’re using AWS applied sciences reminiscent of Amazon Bedrock to develop progressive functions and speed up digital transformation and AI adoption. We’ll proceed to supply optimized cloud and community providers in Taiwan whereas supporting clients’ world growth.”
AWS Companions in Taiwan
The AWS Companion Community in Taiwan performs an important position in serving to clients undertake cloud applied sciences and maximize worth from the brand new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area. These specialised companions mix deep technical experience with native market data to speed up digital transformation throughout industries.
eCloudvalley Digital Expertise Group is an AWS Premier Tier Companies Companion with a staff of cloud consultants with greater than 600 certifications.
“eCloudvalley Group has at all times embraced our mission of being a cloud evangelist, driving the adoption of cloud know-how throughout Taiwan’s industries,” stated MP Tsai, chairman of eCloudvalley Group. “With over a decade of shut collaboration with AWS, we’re honored to assist increasingly more clients and industries transfer to the cloud whereas being a part of clients’ digital transformation journey on AWS. We imagine that the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area will additional assist Taiwan corporations’ digital transformation and innovation in Taiwan with its world-leading cloud know-how, whereas industries with increased native knowledge residency necessities, reminiscent of finance and healthcare, will have the ability to additional advance their cloud transformation journey.”
Nextlink Expertise Inc. is an AWS Premier Consulting Companion, licensed Managed Service Supplier (MSP) and has AWS Degree 1 Managed Safety Service Supplier (MSSP) and Authorities Consulting Competency.
“The funding of AWS in native infrastructure will assist drive the digital transformation of Taiwan corporations, boosting the event of assorted industries spanning from conventional industries to rising digital sectors,” stated Shasta Ho, the CEO of Nextlink Expertise Inc. “We look ahead to persevering with working with AWS to assist enterprises throughout industries deeply make the most of the brand new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area. This native benefit will tackle buyer wants in knowledge localization, low latency, compliance, and excessive efficiency computing workloads. We additionally look ahead to utilizing AWS world-leading cloud applied sciences to energy clients’ digital transformation journeys whereas contributing to the diversification of Taiwan’s financial system.”
SAP has been a strategic accomplice of AWS for greater than a decade, with hundreds of enterprise clients worldwide operating their SAP workloads on AWS.
“SAP is thrilled to see AWS set up new knowledge facilities in Taiwan,” stated George Chen, SAP world vice chairman and managing director for Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. “This funding supplies Taiwan enterprises with higher alternative, decrease service latency, and enhanced operational flexibility. As a long-term strategic accomplice, SAP is dedicated to accelerating cloud transformation for these companies. By way of RISE with SAP, we can assist clients seamlessly migrate to the cloud, having fun with higher flexibility, scalability, and decreased operational prices. By combining SAP’s enterprise options with the strong cloud platform of AWS, we’ll collectively empower Taiwan’s enterprises to unlock progressive AI functions and run their core companies securely and reliably regionally, driving Taiwan enterprise cloud transformation collectively.”
Supporting sustainable innovation in Taiwan
As Taiwan progresses towards its aim of net-zero emissions by 2050, AWS Cloud options are empowering organizations to reinforce operational effectivity whereas decreasing environmental influence. The brand new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area incorporates the AWS dedication to sustainability, serving to organizations meet each technical and environmental aims.
Ace Power is a pioneer in Taiwan’s vitality administration sector. Since 2013, Ace Power has been utilizing AWS providers reminiscent of Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and AWS IoT Core to supply progressive vitality options by their Power Saving Efficiency Contract mannequin. Ace Power has deployed vitality administration options throughout 1,000 areas, helped a semiconductor producer scale back steam consumption by 65 p.c, achieved 22 million new Taiwan {dollars} in annual vitality financial savings, and decreased carbon emissions by 8,000 tons by their waste warmth restoration know-how.
Taiwan Energy Firm (Taipower) is Taiwan’s state energy utility and has revolutionized its operations by AWS since 2018. By implementing sensible grid applied sciences with drones, robotics, and digital actuality for sensible patrol, Taipower has enhanced buyer expertise by the “Taiwan Energy” utility. The corporate has improved operational effectivity by data-driven decision-making and earned six consecutive Platinum Awards within the Company Sustainability class on the Taiwan Company Sustainability Awards.
Constructing cloud expertise collectively
Since 2014, AWS has constructed complete applications for cloud training and expertise growth in Taiwan. For instance, academic applications reminiscent of AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Talent Builder have helped practice greater than 200,000 individuals in Taiwan on cloud expertise. These applications will increase alongside our infrastructure investments to construct a basis for Taiwan’s digital future.
Taiwan boasts a vibrant AWS group that welcomes your involvement. Participate in knowledge-sharing and networking at native AWS Consumer Teams in Taipei, interact with the 4 celebrated AWS Heroes in Taiwan, or take into account turning into a part of the rising group of AWS fans by becoming a member of the ranks of the 17 AWS Group Builders already contributing to Taiwan’s cloud ecosystem. All these group connections present beneficial alternatives to speed up your cloud journey by native experience and collaborative studying.
Keep tuned
The AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area is able to assist your corporation. You could find an in depth checklist of the providers accessible on this Area on the AWS Companies by Area web page. For information about AWS Area openings, try the Regional information of the AWS Information Weblog.
Begin constructing on the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Area now.