Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its first cloud region in Thailand.
The AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region went live on January 7 and comprises three Availability Zones.
The company's first in Thailand, the cloud region is the fourteenth Asia Pacific region joining those in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, as well as in Beijing and Ningxia China.
Plans for the Thailand cloud region first emerged in 2022 as part of the company’s commitment to invest more than $5 billion in data centers in the country over 15 years.
AWS first entered Thailand with an office in 2013. In the years following, it established Amazon CloudFront Edge locations and AWS Outposts, an AWS Local Zone in Bangkok in 2022, and AWS Direct Connect location in Bangkok in 2023. A second Direct Connect location has been added with the launch of the cloud region.
AWS now spans 111 Availability Zones within 35 geographic regions worldwide. The company has plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Germany, Taiwan, Mexico, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand.
Google announced plans for a Thai cloud region in August 2022, and In September 2024, planned to spend $1 billion on cloud and data infrastructure in the country. Microsoft also plans to build a data center region in Thailand.
