AWS confirmed it will invest $5 billion in Thailand by 2037
Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirmed that its new AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region will be live by early 2025, the company said in a release.
AWS said that this investment of more than 190 billion baht ($5 billion) in Thailand by 2037 will provide Thai developers, startups, entrepreneurs and enterprises, as well as government, education and nonprofit organizations, with greater choice when running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in Thailand.
The new AWS Region in Thailand will add to the existing AWS infrastructure in the Asian country, including 10 Amazon CloudFront edge locations, AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones. The new AWS Region, the fourth Region launched in ASEAN after Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia – due to go live in 2024 – will also enable customers with data residency preferences to store data securely in Thailand.
AWS also noted that this new infrastructure will enable small and mid-sized businesses, enterprises and public sector organizations to collaborate using the latest technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, machine learning and IoT.
“We welcome AWS’s $5 billion investment in the new AWS Thailand Region, which will enable a significant step forward in Thailand’s digital transformation journey. This move strengthens our national infrastructure and empowers the growth of thousands of Thai businesses, entrepreneurs and startups. This investment aligns with our vision for the Cloud First initiative, aiming to position Thailand as a central hub for the digital economy in Southeast Asia,” said Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
“Customers in Thailand, such as Bangkok Airways, CP All, PTT Global Chemical, and Siam Commercial Bank, are already harnessing the most comprehensive and widely adopted cloud technology through AWS to spark innovation, enhance productivity and propel economic advancement in Thailand and beyond,” said Vatsun Thirapatarapong, country manager of AWS Thailand.
AWS recently announced plans to invest an additional S$12 billion ($8.8 billion) into its existing cloud infrastructure in Singapore from 2024 to 2028, with the aim of meeting growing customer demand for cloud technology and services in the Asian country.
In a release, AWS said it has invested a total of S$11.5 billion in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region through 2023. With the new investment, AWS’s total planned investment into its existing cloud infrastructure is set to double to more than S$23 billion by 2028.
AWS now has 105 availability zones across 33 geographic regions, with plans to create 18 more availability zones and six more AWS regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and the European sovereign cloud of AWS, which would be an independent cloud for Europe.
AWS Regions are composed of availability zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. 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 said.
