Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to begin a preview of a China Region for its cloud computing platform early next year. The move will be important for businesses using AWS who may be looking to expand into the growing Chinese marketplace.
Announcing the limited preview coming in early 2014, Amazon said it is partnering with local Chinese providers, including ChinaNetCenter and Sinnet. These companies will provide the necessary data centre hosting and internet connectivity for the Chinese AWS platform.
While this is Amazons fourth AWS Region in Asia Pacific and the tenth region globally, the move means customers inside China and international companies looking to target the Chinese market will be able to host some services locally.
With the launch of the new AWS China Region, these customers will be able to run their applications on infrastructure hosted in mainland China. This significantly reduces latency to local end users and enables companies with requirements to store their data in China to easily do so, Amazon said.
Andrew Jassy, Amazon Web Services senior vice president, said customers had been pressing for a local AWS Region in China.
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