Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud computing service provider, will open a new data center in Korea early next year. With 11 AWS regions currently present worldwide, the new South Korean region will become the company’s 12th global center and its fifth in the Asia-Pacific area.
As its global competitors, such as Google, Microsoft and IBM, are renting the data centers of domestic cloud computing service providers or establish their own data centers in order to address processing speed delay problems, AWS has become the first company targeting the domestic cloud market through a localization strategy.
In a blog post on Nov. 5, AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr said, “We will open a new region in Korea early next year. We will be able to exercise complete control over where your data is stored and where it is processed.” A region of AWS means building several data centers in many parts of a country in a bid to provide cloud computing services.
After the implementation of the Cloud Computing Development Act, domestic cloud computing service areas are expanding in earnest. Samsung Electronics, SK Planet, SM Entertainment and major game developers, including Nexon and Gamevil, are currently using ASW cloud services.
Barr added, “Major customers have asked us for a local region in Korea. Once the region is set up early next year, many companies, government agencies and universities in Korea will be offered more perfect cloud services.”
In addition, AWS forecast that many domestic software companies will have an opportunity to make “Software as a Service” applications and provide the services all over the world through the new region.