Amazon will invest $5 billion in Thailand's cloud infrastructure

The cloud computing arm of Amazon.com Inc., AWS announced on Monday that it will spend $5 billion in Thailand over the next 15 years to improve its infrastructure.

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According to a statement from AWS, the money would go toward building data centres as well as purchasing goods and services from local companies

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In order to better service consumers in the area and set up an infrastructure hub in Bangkok, Thailand, the company also plans to do so

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Thailand's deputy prime minister, called AWS's plan to build data centres in the country "a significant milestone that will bring cutting-edge cloud computing services

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to more organisations and help us deliver our Thailand 4.0 ambition to create a digitised, value-based economy."

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More than 200 services, including storage, robotics, and artificial intelligence, are available on the AWS cloud platform

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AWS established its first cloud data centre in the UAE last month and revealed intentions to establish a local hub there to increase client bandwidth

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AWS has introduced 10 Amazon Cloudfront edge locations in Bangkok since 2020

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The edge locations support faster delivery of data, movies, and applications to users.

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