Amazon Web Services to invest $5 billion in Taiwan data centers
The hosted web services division of Amazon is making a major commitment to its operational presence in Taiwan.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching 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 flexibility for running their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in Taiwan.
This will help ensure that Taiwan-based AWS 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 its data centers in Taiwan. The company has been investing in Taiwan cloud infrastructure since 2014.
Initially announced in January 2025, the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region consists of three Availability Zones at launch, giving AWS 117 Availability Zones across 37 AWS Regions globally.
Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve greater fault tolerance.
AWS says that Availability Zones are located far enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity, but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. AWS plans to hire and develop additional local personnel to operate and support the new AWS Region in Taiwan.
"The 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," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of infrastructures services at AWS.
"Organizations 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," Kalyanaraman said.
AWS has plans for 13 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Chile, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS Regions consist of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations.
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