{"id":22001,"date":"2019-04-25T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=22001"},"modified":"2019-04-25T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:46:28","slug":"%e2%80%8baws-launches-new-region-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=22001","title":{"rendered":"\u200bAWS Launches New Region In Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SEATTLE, April 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can leverage the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region to run their applications locally, serve end-users across Hong Kong with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies from the world\u2019s leading cloud with the broadest and deepest suite of cloud services to drive innovation. Customers can get started today at:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Flocal%2Fhongkong%2F&amp;esheet=51974473&amp;newsitemid=20190424006186&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Flocal%2Fhongkong%2F&amp;index=1&amp;md5=009b0b9129a331703a659131ea9881ad\">https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/local\/hongkong\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHong Kong is globally recognized as a leading financial tech hub and one of the top places where startups build their businesses, so we\u2019ve had many customers asking us for an AWS Region in Hong Kong so they can build their businesses on the world\u2019s leading cloud with the broadest and deepest feature set,\u201d said Peter DeSantis, Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. \u201cThe dynamic business environment that exists in Hong Kong \u2013 among startups, enterprises, and government organizations \u2013 is pushing them to be one of the foremost digital areas in Asia. By providing an AWS Region in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, we hope this enables more customers to be more agile, innovate, and transform their end-users\u2019 experience for decades to come.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=34413\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=34413<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE, April 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;&nbsp;Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}