The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region gives
customers more choice to run workloads and securely store data in
Malaysia while serving end users with even lower latency
New Region reflects AWS’s long-term commitment
to meeting high demand for cloud services in Malaysia and across
Asia Pacific
AWS plans to invest more than $6.2 billion
(approx. MYR 29.2 billion) and support an average of more than
3,500 full-time equivalent jobs annually in Malaysia through
2038
Active customers in Malaysia include Bursa
Malaysia, CelcomDigi, GX Bank Berhad, PayNet, Petroliam Nasional
Berhad, the Department of Broadcasting Malaysia, Tenaga Nasional
Berhad, and many others innovating on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), today announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific
(Malaysia) Region. Starting today, developers, startups,
entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education,
and nonprofit organizations, will have greater choice for running
their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers
located in Malaysia. As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is
planning to invest an estimated $6.2 billion (approximately MYR
29.2 billion) in Malaysia through 2038. For more information about
AWS Global Infrastructure, visit
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.
The construction and operation of the new AWS Region is
estimated to add approximately $12.1 billion (MYR 57.3 billion) to
Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) and will support an average
of more than 3,500 full-time equivalent jobs at external businesses
annually through 2038. 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
Malaysia.
“The launch of an AWS infrastructure Region in Malaysia provides
access to new and emerging technology for Malaysian entities and
businesses of all sizes, boosting our country’s capabilities for
digital innovation,” said Tengku Zafrul, Minister of Investment
Trade & Industry (MITI). “This milestone is a significant step
towards fulfilling the vision of Malaysia’s New Industrial Master
Plan 2030 to build a highly skilled, innovative, prosperous,
inclusive, and sustainable economy. We recognize the transformative
power of digitalization, cloud computing and AI as key drivers in
Malaysia’s effort to become a manufacturing and services hub within
Asia. As the largest investment made by an international technology
company in Malaysia, the AWS infrastructure Region will help ensure
Malaysia remains competitive on the global stage.”
“The new AWS Region in Malaysia enables organizations across
Asia Pacific to unlock the full potential of the world’s most
extensive and reliable cloud, helping customers deploy advanced
applications with a broad set of AWS technologies like AI and ML,”
said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services
at AWS. “Malaysia’s rapidly growing digital economy requires access
to secure, resilient, and sustainable cloud infrastructure. With
today’s launch, AWS is proud to support Malaysia’s digital
transformation and help accelerate its role as a regional hub for
AI.”
With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, AWS
has 108 Availability Zones across 34 geographic regions, with
announced plans to launch 18 more Availability Zones and six more
AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
Taiwan, Thailand, 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
(Malaysia) 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. Each
Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical
security, and is connected through redundant, ultra-low-latency
networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design
their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve
even greater fault tolerance.
AWS offers the broadest and deepest portfolio of services,
including analytics, compute, database, IoT, generative AI, ML,
mobile services, storage, and other cloud technologies. Customers
from startups and enterprises to public sector organizations and
nonprofits will be able to use advanced technologies from the
world’s leading cloud provider to drive innovation, meet data
residency preferences, achieve lower latency, and serve demand for
cloud services in Malaysia and across Asia Pacific.
Customers and AWS Partners welcome the AWS Region in
Malaysia
Organizations in Malaysia are among the millions of active
customers using AWS in more than 190 countries around the world.
Enterprises in Malaysia choose AWS to innovate, drive cost
efficiencies, and accelerate time to market. Malaysian customers
using AWS include Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad, Axiata Group,
Bank Islam Malaysia, Bursa Malaysia, CelcomDigi, the Department of
Broadcasting Malaysia (RTM), GX Bank Berhad (GXBank), Johor
Corporation, PayNet, and Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS).
Malaysian public sector customers use AWS to help drive cost
savings and better serve local citizens. These customers include
Asia Pacific University (APU) of Technology & Innovation,
Beeducation Adventures Sdn. Bhd. (BeED), Department of Statistics
Malaysia (DOSM), Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE), Pos
Malaysia, and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB). Malaysian startups and
small businesses, including Aerodyne, Carsome, QRRA, and Tapway,
are building their businesses on AWS to rapidly scale nationally in
the Asia Pacific region and around the world.
Bursa Malaysia, Malaysia’s national exchange, has recently
launched the innovative Centralized Sustainability Intelligence
(CSI) platform on AWS to support Malaysia’s transition to a lower
carbon economy. “Bursa Malaysia welcomes the launch of AWS cloud
infrastructure in Malaysia as a positive step forward for the
country’s digital economy, bringing continued innovation to drive
capital markets growth,” said Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift, CEO at
Bursa Malaysia. “Our collaboration with AWS to launch a CSI
platform gives Malaysian companies and their suppliers an impetus
to standardize ESG reporting and decarbonize their supply chain.
Cloud computing will continue to contribute to better
sustainability practices among Malaysian companies and have a
positive impact on the broader ecosystem.”
CelcomDigi is a leading telecommunications provider in Malaysia
that is using Amazon Bedrock to access a variety of high-performing
foundation and purpose-built large language models, enabling an
enterprise-wide AI sandbox for secure, rapid innovation across its
consumer and corporate businesses. “The new AWS Region in Malaysia
presents exciting opportunities for CelcomDigi as we accelerate our
transformation to be a leading telco-tech company,” said Datuk
Idham Nawawi, CEO at CelcomDigi. “With the support of AWS
infrastructure and AI services to power our business support
systems and consumer applications, we strive to improve operational
efficiencies and deliver better experiences to our customers. We
look forward to strengthening our collaboration with AWS, anchored
by a shared commitment in driving innovation and building
Malaysia’s digital ecosystem.”
ELSA Corp. (ELSA) uses speech technology and AI to help
non-native English learners speak more confidently and fluently
through its app, ELSA Speak, which is used in over 100 countries.
“Our collaboration with AWS has been instrumental in our work to
help over 50 million English learners improve their speaking skills
and has helped drive our global market expansion,” said Will
Polese, vice president, Revenue at ELSA. “With AWS's flexible
configurations for compute, database, and storage of large volumes
of real-time data, ELSA can effectively manage a surge in user
growth and maintain high levels of user satisfaction. The new AWS
Region in Malaysia will further enhance our capabilities, enabling
us to deliver low latency, reliable, high-performing solutions to
our clients and end learners. AWS’s investment underscores its
commitment to supporting the digital economy and our efforts to
improve inclusivity through technology."
GXBank is Malaysia's first digital bank with a mission to
empower every Malaysian to be financially resilient. "Building on
AWS, we were operationally ready to launch GXBank within 16 months,
serving over 750k customers with 13 million transactions in just
eight months," said Pei-Si Lai, CEO at GXBank. "We are delighted to
welcome the AWS Region in Malaysia, which will provide Malaysian
businesses, entrepreneurs, and SMEs access to scalable and secure
digital infrastructure to help them deliver seamless customer
experiences. We are proud of our journey with AWS to help
democratize access to financial services and foster financial
inclusion across ASEAN, underpinned by advanced technology."
PETRONAS is a global energy and solutions provider with a
presence in over 50 countries. It uses AWS for new and existing
solutions such as Malaysia’s first e-wallet (SETEL) for purchasing
fuel and a cloud-based logistics solution and services platform
(STEAR) for the offshore industry. “Digital technologies play an
important role in all our businesses. Cloud services enable our
work in artificial intelligence, IoT, advanced analytics, robotics,
and data governance,” said Ir. Mohd Yusri Mohamed Yusof, senior
vice president, Project Delivery & Technology, PETRONAS. “AWS’s
investment in Malaysia will facilitate our data residency needs,
improve performance, and elevate the country’s digital
capabilities. I am excited by the possibilities this investment can
create for Malaysia to become a regional leader in the digital
economy.”
RTM, the national public broadcaster in Malaysia, uses AWS to
build and scale innovative applications for its millions of
customers with its digital media delivery platform, RTMKlik. “The
launch of the AWS Region in Malaysia means being able to leverage
AWS generative AI services like Bedrock to bring transformative
innovation to RTMKlik and tailor our content to align with the
viewing preferences of each RTMKlik user,” said Datuk Suhaimi
Sulaiman, director general at RTM. “AWS has helped us enhance the
inclusivity of RTMKlik, providing value-added services such as live
captions to ensure our hearing-impaired audience can better
understand and follow live broadcasts. Advancements like these
elevate the user experience and help us engage with a broad
audience. AWS has been pivotal in making RTMKlik a more dynamic,
accessible, and user-centric platform.”
TNB, a leading utility company in Asia, serves over 9.5 million
customers across commercial, industrial, and residential sectors in
Malaysia. In collaboration with AWS, TNB is accelerating its
digital transformation to enhance customer experience and develop
innovative smart energy solutions. “As part of our 10-year
Reimagining TNB Plan, we are collaborating with AWS to build
digital capabilities and infrastructure that support
decarbonization efforts across our business entities,” said Azlan
Ahmad, chief information officer at TNB. “Digital solutions are key
to modernizing the grid and expanding renewable energy capacity,
while also empowering our customers through advanced digital
platforms. Through collaborations like this, TNB is driving the
future of sustainable and efficient energy, ensuring we meet
growing energy demands and lead the way in the energy
transition.”
The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of
independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs)
around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and
services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing business,
technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS
ISVs, technology partners, SIs, and consulting partners help
enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy
mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of
monitoring, automation, and management services for customers’
cloud environments. AWS Partners in Malaysia include Accenture,
Aerodyne, Axrail, CelcomDigi, Deloitte, eCloudvalley, Exabytes,
G-AsiaPacific, GHL, Kyndryl, Maxis, Radmik Solutions, Silverlake
Axis, SoftwareOne, Tapway, Uberfusion, and VSTECS. For the full
list of AWS Partners, visit aws.amazon.com/partners.
G-AsiaPacific is a fully integrated cloud advisory company,
based in Malaysia and operating across Asia Pacific, and a
Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network. “The new AWS Region
in Malaysia presents a fantastic opportunity for us to build even
better service offerings for our customers across the public
sector, financial services, education, and beyond,” said Mark Goh,
CEO and co-founder at G-AsiaPacific. “With AWS, we can help our
customers establish critical data governance and compliance
policies, while meeting local data residency and security
requirements. AWS’s advanced technologies are helping our customers
experiment and iterate faster at lower cost, accelerating
innovation across increasingly diverse industries. We plan to
nurture more highly skilled cloud talent to better leverage the
latest AWS capabilities and drive growth in Malaysia’s vibrant
digital economy.”
Tapway, a homegrown Malaysian startup and a leading AI solution
provider in Southeast Asia, uses AWS data analytics and ML
technologies, including Amazon SageMaker, to transform images and
videos into actionable insights for diverse industries. The
startup’s SamurAI computer vision solution on AWS is available on
AWS Marketplace. “The launch of an AWS Region in Malaysia provides
us with even lower latency to access key cloud services that power
and scale our fast-growing AI vision platform in a data-compliant
way,” said Lim Chee How, founder and CEO at Tapway. “We’re excited
to see how AWS’s infrastructure investment in Malaysia will pave
the way for Tapway to allow even more people to build, train, and
deploy AI vision technology solutions quickly and affordably with
their big data stored locally.”
Enabling Malaysia’s workforce
Since 2017, AWS Malaysia has trained over 100,000 individuals in
Malaysia in cloud skills. AWS continues to invest in upskilling
developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in
Malaysia with sought-after cloud skills through AWS Skills to Jobs
Tech Alliance and AWS Training & Certification programs like
AWS Academy. AWS Academy provides higher education institutions
around the world with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing
curriculum that prepares students for industry-recognized AWS
Certifications and in-demand cloud jobs. AWS Academy currently runs
courses in 49 universities in east and west Malaysia, including
Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Tunku
Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology (TAR UMT), and
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, that cover cloud foundations, cloud
architecting, cloud operations, cloud developing, and data
engineering, as well as specialty certifications related to machine
learning, cyber security, and other domains. Since 2018, more than
25,000 students have been trained by the AWS Academy program.
In July 2024, AWS and PayNet announced Program AKAR, powered by
AWS re/Start, a new cloud skills initiative in Malaysia that aims
to bridge the growing skills gap in Malaysia’s digital economy.
Program AKAR is the first financial services-focused cloud skills
program that has been curated specifically for entry-level talent
in Malaysia, and – through a 47-day training course culminating
with the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification – equips university
students with transferrable skills that can be leveraged for
careers in financial services. PayNet and AWS welcomed the first
cohort of learners from Asia Pacific University in July 2024. These
students will be given opportunities for internships with
organizations across PayNet’s payments network upon completion of
the program.
AWS is helping organizations such as PETRONAS accelerate their
digital transformation through AWS Skills Guild, a consultative
program that helps companies build an organization-wide cloud
enablement initiative rooted in skills application and community
development. PETRONAS is training their employees on cloud
fundamentals through self-paced, online training courses.
Commitment to sustainability
Amazon is committed to becoming a more sustainable business and
reaching net-zero carbon across its operations by 2040, 10 years
ahead of the Paris Agreement, as part of The Climate Pledge. Amazon
co-founded The Climate Pledge and became its first signatory in
2019. In December 2023, PKT Logistics Group became the first
Malaysian signatory to The Climate Pledge.
In July 2024, Amazon announced it met its goal to match all of
the electricity consumed across Amazon’s global
operations—including its data centers, corporate buildings, grocery
stores and fulfillment centers—with 100% renewable energy in 2023,
seven years ahead of its original 2030 commitment. To get there,
Amazon became the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy
in the world since 2020, and the solar and wind farms enabled by
Amazon stimulated billions of dollars in estimated economic
investment globally from 2014 through 2022. Additionally, AWS is
committed to being water positive by 2030, returning more water to
communities than it uses in its direct operations.
AWS is constantly working on ways to increase the energy
efficiency of its data centers—optimizing data center design,
investing in purpose-built chips, and innovating with new cooling
technologies. A new report by Accenture, commissioned by AWS,
estimates AWS’s infrastructure is up to 4.1 times more efficient
than on-premises, and when workloads are optimized on AWS, the
associated carbon footprint can be reduced by up to 99%. With the
new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, customers will also benefit
from AWS’s sustainability efforts across its infrastructure. For
more information about AWS sustainability efforts, visit
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability.
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Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups,
largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to
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