American multinational technology company Amazon has continued to expand its presence in Singapore with a new corporate office at IOI Central Boulevard.

The firm said in a statement on Wednesday that the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific Hub is designed to optimize agile working, learning, and collaboration as AWS continues to grow its business, operations, and investments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

As the anchor tenant in IOI Central Boulevard’s East Tower, Amazon will occupy over 360,000 square feet of workspace which can accommodate up to 3,000 employees.

This new office is Amazon’s second corporate office in Singapore’s Central Business District, after Asia Square that opened its doors for employees in 2021.

Amazon has over 2,500 employees in Singapore across its cloud, corporate, retail, technology, and operations functions.

The firm continues to expand its local workforce with more than 100 job openings in its cloud business and corporate functions in Singapore.

Amazon’s new office reinforces AWS’s commitment to invest an additional S$12 billion ($8.86 billion) into its existing cloud infrastructure in Singapore from 2024 to 2028.

This investment, in addition to previous investment, is estimated to contribute S$23.7 billion ($17.51 billion) to Singapore’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2028.

It will also support an estimated 12,300 full-time equivalent jobs in local Singapore businesses each year.

“AWS’s new regional office in Singapore represents our deepening commitment to Singapore, and serves as a strategic hub for digital transformation across ASEAN,

“Designed as a collaborative space, it connects AWS leaders with industry partners, enterprises, and innovators to advance technology development in Southeast Asia,” said Jeff Johnson, Managing Director, ASEAN, Amazon Web Services.

According to him, the launch of the new AWS office marks Amazon’s 15th year in Singapore, reinforcing the island state’s position as a leading technology hub while accelerating digital initiatives throughout the region.

The new office, spanning across eight floors, will house more than 100 teams, including local and regional employees supporting AWS and other corporate functions, and serve as a strategic hub for digital transformation across Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.

AWS customers and partners will be welcomed to use its office for focused co-working sessions, creative brainstorms in dedicated innovation rooms, hands-on technical workshops, or informal networking in their community spaces.

This open-door approach aims to create an environment where ideas flow freely and joint innovation thrives.

Highlights of the new AWS office include an upcoming AWS Asia-Pacific Innovation Hub that is designed to inspire, educate, and empower customers and partners on their innovation journey.

The AWS Innovation Hub is the first-of-its-kind in the region and is slated to open by the third quarter this year.

Since 2006, AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload.

The firm now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

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