Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, has launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than US$5 B in Thailand.
AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. AWS estimates the construction and ongoing operation of the new AWS region will add approximately US$10 B to Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) and support an average of more than 11,000 full-time-equivalent jobs at external businesses annually. These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and others within the country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Thailand.
“I would like to extend my appreciation to Amazon Web Services for investing in the development of data centres in Thailand,” said Paetongtarn Shinawatra, PM of Thailand.
“I am pleased that Thailand’s potential and readiness have been recognised by one of the world’s leading companies. I look forward to AWS playing a pivotal role, in partnership with the government, in advancing Thailand toward a more inclusive digital society and expanding access to digital services for all citizens.”
“We continue to see rapid cloud adoption across Asia Pacific as more customers unlock the full potential of the world’s most extensive, reliable, and secure cloud,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of Infrastructure Services at AWS.
“This new AWS Region in Thailand will help customers across all industries deploy advanced applications with a broad set of AWS technologies that offer both core cloud capabilities, such as compute, storage, analytics, and networking, and services that enable customers to rapidly evolve, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. With today’s launch, AWS is proud to support Thailand’s digital transformation and help accelerate its role as a regional hub for artificial intelligence.”
With this launch, AWS has a total of 111 Availability Zones across 35 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions including in New Zealand, KSA, and Taiwan. The AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region consists of three Availability Zones 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. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is connected through redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance, AWS said.
Enterprises in Thailand choose AWS to innovate, drive cost efficiencies, and accelerate time to market. Thai customers using AWS include 2C2P, Ascend Money, Bank of Ayudhya, Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group), and KASIKORN Business-Technology Group. Thailand public sector customers use AWS to help drive cost savings and better serve local citizens.
These customers include Big Data Institute (BDI), Digital Government Development Agency, the Center of Excellence in Digital and AI for Mental Health (AIMET), as well as the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). Thai startups and small businesses, including BODA Technology & Consultancy, BOTNOI Group, Flow Account, Pomelo Fashion, and Sunday Technology, are also building on AWS to rapidly scale nationally in the Asia Pacific region and around the world.
The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS ISVs, technology partners, SIs, and consulting partners help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customers’ cloud environments.
AWS Partners in Thailand include Com7, Dailitech, Dakok, Deloitte, Fujitsu, G-Able, Inteltion, Metro Systems, MFEC, NTT DATA, SiS Distribution, SoftwareOne, True IDC, and Yip in Tsoi & Company. Dailitech is a Thai technology company specialising in data solutions and AI focusing on the foundational aspects of network, security, and application migrations to the AWS cloud.
“The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region will significantly enhance Dailitech’s ability to accelerate innovation and improve performance for our customers in Southeast Asia,” said Dr Vit Niennattrakul, MD, Dailitech.
“We are also proud and excited that this expansion by AWS further cements Thailand's position as a key player in the region's digital economy, and it will unlock tremendous potential for Thai businesses and for the Thai people.”
NTT DATA, part of the global NTT Group, is an IT services provider. They collaborate with AWS to offer cloud migration, management, and optimisation services to businesses in Thailand. NTT DATA leverages AWS’s infrastructure and tools to help clients accelerate digital transformation, enhance operational efficiency, and innovate in areas like IoT and data analytics.
“This strategic investment by AWS aligns perfectly with our commitment to driving digital transformation in Thailand and the broader ASEAN region,” said Sutas Kongdumrongkiat, CEO, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, NTT DATA.
“The new AWS Thailand Region will enable us to offer our clients enhanced cloud solutions with improved performance, lower latency, and stronger data sovereignty. As a long-standing AWS partner, we’re excited to leverage this local infrastructure to accelerate innovation, particularly in areas like IoT, smart cities, and Industry 4.0. This development will undoubtedly strengthen Thailand's position as a digital hub and foster new opportunities for businesses across various sectors.”
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region is the latest in AWS’s ongoing investments in Thailand to provide customers with advanced and secure cloud services, along with skilling, training, and community engagement programmes. Since 2020, AWS has launched six Amazon CloudFront edge locations in Thailand, which accelerate the delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low latency and high transfer speeds. In 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts in Thailand to deliver AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience.
In 2022, AWS deepened its investment in Thailand with the launch of AWS Local Zones in Bangkok. AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large populations and industry centres, enabling customers to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end users.
Since 2017, AWS has trained more than 50,000 individuals in Thailand in cloud skills. AWS continues to invest in upskilling developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in Thailand with sought-after cloud skills through the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance and AWS Training & Certification programmes like AWS Academy. AWS also launched the Tech for Digital Future programme in Thailand to provide basic cloud computing skills to high school and vocational students about cloud fundamentals in Thai.
AWS Academy provides higher education institutions around the world with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum that prepares students for industry-recognised AWS certifications and in-demand cloud jobs. AWS Academy currently runs courses in more than 30 universities in Thailand, including Chulalongkorn University, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Mahidol University, Siam University, and Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, that cover cloud foundations, cloud architecting, cloud operations, cloud developing, and data engineering, as well as specialty certifications related to machine learning, cybersecurity, and other domains. Since the programme launched, more than 1 million students have been trained by the AWS Academy globally.
*IoT stands for the Internet of Things.
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