Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company , has on Wednesday announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region.

AWS said in a statement that developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, will now have greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in Thailand.

As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than $5 billion in Thailand.

AWS estimates the construction and ongoing operation of the new AWS Region will add approximately $10 billion to Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) and support an average of more than 11,000 full-time-equivalent jobs at external businesses annually.

These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and others within the country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Thailand.

“We continue to see rapid cloud adoption across Asia Pacific as more customers unlock the full potential of the world’s most extensive, reliable, and secure cloud,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS.

According to him, this new AWS Region in Thailand will help customers across all industries deploy advanced applications with a broad set of AWS technologies that offer both core cloud capabilities, such as compute, storage, analytics, and networking, and services that enable customers to rapidly evolve, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

He also noted the launch will support Thailand’s digital transformation and help accelerate its role as a regional hub for artificial intelligence.

Meanwhile, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, said he looks forward to AWS playing a pivotal role, in partnership with the government, in advancing Thailand toward a more inclusive digital society and expanding access to digital services for all citizens.

With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, AWS has 111 Availability Zones across 35 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations.

The AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region consists of three Availability Zones located far enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity, but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones.

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region is the latest in AWS’s ongoing investments in Thailand to provide customers with advanced and secure cloud services, along with skilling, training, and community engagement programs.

Active customers in Thailand and across Southeast Asia include 2C2P, Ascend Money, Bank of Ayudhya, Big Data Institute, The Center of Excellence in Digital and AI for Mental Health, Charoen Pokphand Group, Dailitech, Digital Government Development Agency, ECV, G-Able, KASIKORN Business-Technology Group, Metro Systems, NTT DATA, Stock Exchange of Thailand, and many others innovating on AWS.

Since 2020, AWS has launched six Amazon CloudFront edge locations in Thailand, which accelerate the delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low latency and high transfer speeds.

In 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts in Thailand to deliver AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

In 2022, AWS deepened its investment in Thailand with the launch of AWS Local Zones in Bangkok.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large populations and industry centers, enabling customers to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end users.

Since 2017, AWS has trained more than 50,000 individuals in Thailand in cloud skills. AWS continues to invest in upskilling developers, students, and the next generation of information technology (IT) leaders in Thailand with sought-after cloud skills.

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