At the beginning of last year, the American e-commerce giant Amazon finally launched a cloud computing cluster in Indonesia, and said it would invest about US$5 billion in the country in the next 15 years to develop and operate data centers. The cluster is operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing and software services division, and will form the company’s AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. The investment will mainly include capital expenditures for the construction of data centers, operating expenditures related to ongoing utility and facility costs, and the procurement of goods and services from regional companies. “Motor…
U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon finally launched its cloud computing cluster in Indonesia Announce At the beginning of last year, it said that it would invest about 5 billion U.S. dollars in the country to develop and operate data centers in the next 15 years.
The cluster is operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing and software services division, and will form the company’s AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region.
The investment will mainly include capital expenditures for the construction of data centers, operating expenditures related to ongoing utility and facility costs, and the procurement of goods and services from regional companies.
“The Engine of Economic Development”
Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of AWS Infrastructure Services, said that the new facility will “help Indonesian institutions, innovative start-ups and the world’s leading companies provide cloud-driven applications that will become the engine of economic development.”
The cloud will provide organizations of all types and sizes-from enterprises to educational institutions to government agencies-with “opportunities to transform operations and reinvent the experience for customers and end users”, which will “reduce costs, increase agility, and promote Innovation”, he added.
GDP growth and job creation
Cloud services are expected to increase Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) by approximately US$10.9 billion in the next 15 years, and create 24,700 direct and indirect jobs in Indonesia’s AWS supply chain, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, Telecom and other AWS said, as well as job opportunities in the wider Indonesian economy.
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region, AWS now oversees 84 availability zones in 26 geographic regions around the world, and announced plans to launch another 24 availability zones and 8 AWS regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, and New Zealand , Spain, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. Jakarta, along with China’s Hong Kong, Beijing, Ningxia, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney, has become the “region” of the Asia-Pacific region.
