Amazon Web Services Launches Korean Data Centers For Its Cloud Computing Platform
Cloud pioneer expands infrastructure footprint with new Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, providing Korean customers with a choice in data locality and even lower latency.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced the launch of the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, its fifth technology infrastructure region in Asia Pacific (APAC). Starting today, Korean-based businesses and global companies with customers in Korea can leverage AWS’s industry leading infrastructure technology platform to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. Many thousands of Korean customers have been using the AWS Cloud from other AWS Regions for several years. Now, with the launch of the Seoul Region, Korean-based developers and companies, as well as multinational companies with end users in Korea, can securely store and process their data in AWS in Korea with single-digit millisecond latency across most of Korea. Developers can sign up and get started today at: http://aws.amazon.com.
The Seoul Region consists of two Availability Zones at launch. Each Availability Zone includes one or more geographically distinct data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity. Each Availability Zone is designed to be resilient to any issues in another Availability Zone, enabling customers to operate production applications and databases that are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than would be possible from a single data center.