TECH - Amazon to Open More Cloud Centers in Southeast Asia for Better Data Protection | Benzinga
Amazon.Com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is establishing cloud regions in Southeast Asia in response to customer demands for secure local data storage.
“The reason for this is that many of our customers have been asking for that. They really wanted something local such that they can meet, for example, local data storage requirements, or protection of personal identifiable information,” CNBC cites from Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels’ interview.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, led the global cloud service market in the fourth quarter, capturing 31% of total cloud spending, says a Canalys report according to CNBC.
An AWS region consists of a physical location with clusters of data centers. Each area contains at least three separate availability zones, each equipped with power, ...