Amazon Web Services expands in Hong Kong as it seeks to strengthen footprint

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, expands its global footprint with the launch of AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, bringing the total number of Availability Zones to 64 within 21 geographic regions across the world.

The new Region is the eighth active AWS Region in the Asia Pacific and mainland China and Amazon Web Services has also announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan in the coming months.

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will enable organizations to provide lower latency to end users in Hong Kong, and across the Asia Pacific. It will enable customers to run applications and store their content in data centres in Hong Kong while connecting to the global AWS network with the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection, Amazon said in a press statement. Developers, government, startups and businesses across Hong Kong can access the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region beginning today.

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"The dynamic business environment that exists in Hong Kong – among startups, enterprises, and government organizations – is pushing them to be one of the foremost digital areas in Asia. By providing an AWS Region in Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region, we hope this enables more customers to be more agile, innovate, and transform their end-users' experience for decades to come," said Peter DeSantis, Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services.

Millions of active AWS customers and APN Partners across Hong Kong welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region and hope to continue towards their goal to expand their digital business to a global scale. APN Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS and the APN helps by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support.

"We look forward to extending our partnership with AWS in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, while modernizing our digital applications so we can provide a better experience to our customers in Hong Kong, and across Greater China," said Calvin Ho, Group Manager of Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Service & IT Operations at Swire Coca-Cola.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com remains the leading public cloud provider worldwide. 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.