Amazon expands APAC cloud platform

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Cloud pioneer now offers its suite of infrastructure web services for the new Tokyo Region and localized Premium Support

New Delhi: Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced the launch of its new Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, the fifth Region in which the company has deployed its global cloud computing platform. Japan-based businesses and global companies with customers in Japan can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. Starting today, AWS is also offering support in Japanese for any customer with a Japanese language preference.

The newly launched Tokyo Region is the second Region in Asia Pacific for AWS, and is now available for any business or software developer to sign up and get started today at http://aws.amazon.com and http://aws.amazon.com/jp.

Before AWS launched in early 2006, businesses would take on the massive capital investment of building their own infrastructure or contract with a vendor for a fixed amount of datacenter capacity that they might or might not use. This choice meant either paying for wasted capacity or having to worry that the amount of capacity they forecasted was insufficient to keep pace with their growth. Many businesses spent time and money managing their own datacenter or a co-location facility, which meant time not spent on growing their actual business or differentiating their offering for customers. Over the past five years, AWS has changed the way that businesses think about technology infrastructureincur no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, turn capital expense into variable operating expense, scale seamlessly by adding or shedding resources as quickly as you wish, free up scarce engineering resources from the undifferentiated heavy lifting of running your own infrastructureall without sacrificing operational performance, reliability, or security.

Today, AWS powers hundreds of thousands of customers in over 190 countries around the world, including individual developers, startups, government agencies and enterprises, said Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services.

More and more, companies are realizing that they can use AWS to save significant capital, innovate faster, accelerate their pace of technology delivery, and focus their scarce engineering resources on what differentiates their business rather than on infrastructure. AWS is already being used by many companies in Japan, and with single digit millisecond latency in most instances to end users in Japan from our new Tokyo Region, we expect that to accelerate.

AWS Basic Support is free to all users and offers access to the AWS Resource Center, Service Health Dashboard, Technical FAQs, and Developer Forums. AWS Premium Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced technical support engineers. Companies can now access AWS Basic Support and subscribe to AWS Premium Support in Japanese, giving customers choices for their preferred language so that they can successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services. For more details on the multiple offerings within AWS Premium Support, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/support.

In addition, AWS plans to provide in the coming months the option for billing in Japanese Yen.

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