The Asia-Pacific cloud market is heating up with players such as Alibaba and Google ramping up their regional data centre footprint, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes its “full” portfolio of services and platform maturity will help keep its competitive edge. Backed by more than 165 services ranging from core infrastructure offerings to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), AWS executives say customers in the region want options as well as operational experience to guide them through their cloud deployments.
The US cloud vendor has been “investing heavily” in the region where it currently operates offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, said Peter DeSantis, AWS’ vice president of global infrastructure and customer support, but was unable to reveal how much this entailed or how much Asia-Pacific contributed to the company’s’ overall revenue and customer base.