This new AWS region is estimated to contribute to Indonesia’s GDP of 155K IDR.

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Technology company Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the official opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Now AWS service users such as developers, startups, entrepreneurs, large corporations and governments can run applications and serve their customers from multiple data centers in Indonesia.

“AWS is pleased to announce the opening of our new Asia Pacific region to serve various institutions, innovative startups and global leaders in Indonesia,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services, AWS, in of his statement on Wednesday (15/12).

“We are making applications powered by the cloud become the engine of economic development in all regions of Indonesia,” he added.

AWS also released its latest study of the economic impact of development investments and operations, the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region is expected to create 24,700 jobs, both directly and indirectly, with an estimated investment value of $ 5 billion ($ 71 trillion Rupees). . ) for the Indonesian economy.

In the next 15 years, the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region is also expected to contribute to Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) of 10.9 billion US dollars (155 trillion Rp).

With the introduction of the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region, AWS has 84 Availability Zones in 26 geographic regions worldwide and plans to introduce an additional 24 Availability Zones and eight additional AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.

AWS Regions are made up of Availability Zones that place the infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. Availability Zones are far enough apart to support customer business continuity, but close 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 via a redundant network with extremely low latency. AWS customers with a focus on high availability can design their applications to run across multiple Availability Zones for greater fault tolerance.

The introduction of the AWS Region in Indonesia brings customers even lower latency across the country and supports disaster recovery applications for business continuity.

Source: Between