AWS Launches Taipei Region with $5B Investment
With a planned investment of over $5 billion, the new region will help developers, businesses, and institutions across sectors, from finance and manufacturing to education and healthcare run their applications with low-latency, secure, and onshore data processing capabilities in Taiwan.
Powering Taiwan’s Digital Transformation
With three Availability Zones at launch, the Taipei Region enhances AWS’s global footprint to 117 Availability Zones across 37 Regions worldwide. AWS now also has 13 more Availability Zones and four additional Regions planned in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of Infrastructure Services at AWS, said, “The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will enable organizations of all sizes to build and scale with confidence using our comprehensive suite of cloud services, ranging from foundational compute and storage to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, all while meeting local data residency requirements.”
He added, “Organizations across Taiwan, and across Asia Pacific, can now leverage the same global infrastructure that millions of businesses worldwide rely on, while benefitting from single-digit millisecond latency, to accelerate innovation, increase operational efficiency, drive business growth, and deliver better experiences for their end users.”
Government Applauds Strategic Collaboration
Taiwan’s Premier Jung-tai Cho praised the investment as a testament to Taiwan’s role in the global tech supply chain, noting that AWS’s growing presence will accelerate cloud adoption, digital transformation, and AI innovation across industries.
To foster local expertise, Amazon continues to support cloud skills training through AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Skill Builder. Since 2017, more than 200,000 people in Taiwan have received cloud training as part of AWS’s broader effort to upskill over 9 million learners across Asia Pacific and Japan.
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Customers and Partners
Major organizations including TSMC, Acer, Trend Micro, Chunghwa Telecom, and Cathay Financial Holdingsalready run workloads on AWS. AWS Partners in Taiwan such as eCloudvalley, NextLink, MetaAge, and CKmatessupport cloud adoption and innovation.
The Taipei Region adheres to AWS’s high standards of security, resilience, and energy efficiency, designed to provide fault tolerance through independent Availability Zones. AWS also focuses on sustainability, aiming to be net-zero carbon by 2040 under The Climate Pledge.
According to an Accenture study, AWS’s infrastructure is up to 4.1 times more energy efficient than traditional on-premises systems, with potential carbon footprint reductions of up to 99% when workloads are optimized on AWS.
