Amazon Web Services Announces Upcoming China Region for its Cloud Computing Platform

Amazon Web Services Announces Upcoming China Region for its Cloud Computing Platform

AWS signs memorandums of understanding with the Beijing and Ningxia governments to develop cloud computing services

Xiaomi, Qihoo 360, TCL, Tiens, NQ Mobile, FunPlus, Kingsoft, Mobotap, and Papaya Mobile among the growing Chinese business community already using AWS

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2013-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) - Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS, Inc.), an Amazon.com company, today announced the upcoming limited preview of its China Region for the AWS cloud computing platform. This will be the fourth AWS Region in Asia Pacific and the tenth Region globally. In the limited preview, which will be deployed in early 2014, a select group of China-based and multinational companies with customers in China will be invited to begin using AWS Cloud services in the AWS China Region to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. Businesses and software developers can apply for access to the limited preview in the AWS China Region today at http://www.amazonaws.cn.

To provide the best experience for customers in China and to comply with China's legal and regulatory requirements, AWS China has taken a multi-partner approach for delivering cloud services. AWS is partnering with multiple local Chinese providers, including ChinaNetCenter and SINNET, who will provide the necessary Internet Data Center (IDC) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) services, such as infrastructure, bandwidth, and network capabilities, to support the delivery of AWS software technology services in China.

AWS Cloud eliminates the undifferentiated heavy lifting of IT for Chinese businesses

Prior to AWS, businesses would take on the massive capital investment of building their own IT infrastructure or contracting with a vendor for datacenter capacity that they might or might not use. This choice meant either paying for wasted capacity or having to worry that their forecasted capacity was insufficient to keep pace with their growth. AWS has changed the way that businesses think about technology infrastructure. Using AWS, businesses incur no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, turn capital expense into variable operating expense, scale seamlessly by adding or shedding resources on demand, free-up scarce engineering resources from the undifferentiated heavy lifting of running IT - all without sacrificing security, operational performance, or reliability.

Thousands of customers in China have been using AWS in other Regions across the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. With the launch of the new AWS China Region, these customers will be able to run their applications on infrastructure in China, which significantly reduces latency to local end users and enables companies with requirements to store their data in China to easily do so. Additionally, customers will have access to the world's leading cloud computing platform, representing more than a decade of software technology innovation and spanning a broad set of AWS Cloud services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Storage Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Glacier, Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Management Console, and AWS Premium Support.

Current and prospective AWS customers have asked us to build a local AWS Region in China, said Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services. China represents an important long-term market segment for AWS. We are looking forward to working with Chinese customers, partners, and government institutions to help small and large organizations use cloud computing to innovate and deploy faster, save money, expand their geographic reach, and do so without sacrificing security, availability, data durability, and reliability.

Partnering with Chinese government organizations to advance cloud computing in China

In a ceremony today in Beijing, AWS China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Beijing municipal government and the Government of Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region. The MOU reflects the signing parties' intent to construct and develop high-performing, reliable, and economical AWS cloud computing services that leverage facilities and resources in Beijing and Western China, and are promoted to customers across China.

Additionally, the Government of Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region intends to use AWS Cloud services to power its public service applications in an effort to fully utilize the benefits of cloud computing to improve the efficiency and user experiences of its public services.

Together with Beijing and Ningxia, AWS intends to help foster development of a robust IT sector in Western China, empowered through cloud computing, that enables more Chinese customers to innovate and grow existing and new businesses. To jump start that goal, AWS China is also working with Shanghai Jiading Industrial Zone on an incubation program that supports startup businesses through a combination of resources from AWS China along with a variety of incentives from Shanghai Jiading Industrial Zone. AWS expects to introduce incubation programs in other parts of China over time.

Mr. Yuan Jiajun, Executive Vice Chairman of the Government of Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region said, We are glad to have the support of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other related government departments for Ningxia and

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