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Singapore – Amazon Web Services said on Tuesday it would invest an additional S$12 billion (about US$8.87 billion) over the next five years to develop its cloud infrastructure and services in Singapore.
Priscilla Chong, AWS Singapore country manager, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Tuesday: “This investment will be used to build and enhance data center capabilities, all related to the Asia Pacific Singapore region.”
The U.S. tech giant’s cloud computing arm launches The first Asia Pacific region is in Singapore 2010 – First expansion outside the United States and Europe. Since then, AWS said it has injected more than S$11 billion into Singapore’s cloud infrastructure and ecosystem.
“Since its investment in Singapore in 2010, AWS has continuously strengthened its commitment to the ASEAN region, sharing the advancement of digital skills with countries and continuing to provide secure and resilient infrastructure across the region,” Chong said at a conference on Tuesday. summit.
Chong added that the company has trained more than 400,000 people in Singapore on cloud skills since 2017 and will “continue to invest in upskilling and improving productivity” across the country.
The boom in artificial intelligence has led to a surge in demand for cloud computing services and data centers, because training artificial intelligence models requires large amounts of data, and the cloud provides access to large data sets.
“Cloud service providers like AWS play an important role in improving the digital economic ecosystem. In addition to serving as the basic digital infrastructure of organizations, cloud service providers also enable enterprises to easily access digital resources such as computing and storage. and advanced features like artificial intelligence and generation.
Tan said AWS will also help more organizations in Singapore adopt cloud services and artificial intelligence capabilities as the region continues to see “strong momentum in digitalisation”.
Chan also pointed out that while the prospects for the digital economy remain optimistic, there is a “shortage of technical professionals” in Singapore and around the world.
According to data, AWS was the world’s largest cloud infrastructure provider in the first quarter collaborative research group. In the first quarter, AWS accounted for 31% of the global cloud infrastructure market, down from 32% in the same period last year. Microsoft Azure ranks second after AWS.
Just last week, Microsoft said it would make artificial intelligence and cloud-related investments in several Southeast Asian countries—— MalaysiaThailand and Indonesia – as it doubles down on its investments in the region.
Amazon Web Services has also expanded its footprint in Southeast Asia over the past few years.
It set out plans for a region in Thailand in October 2022 Invest US$5 billion over 15 years In March last year, it stated that it would Commitment of at least US$6 billion by 2037 Entering a new region in Malaysia. AWS Opened a region in Jakarta December 2021.
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