AWS plans to invest MYR29.2 billion (US$6.2 billion) in Malaysia through 2038 with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, boosting the country’s digital economy. This is the largest investment by an international cloud provider in the country to date.
The new AWS Malaysia Region, a physical geographic location where AWS has a cluster of data centers, offers Malaysian and Asia Pacific customers world-class cloud infrastructure with security, performance, and scalability. It enables local data residency while providing businesses with low latency access to advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI.
Developers, startups, small and medium sized businesses, and enterprises, as well as government and public sector organizations, will have greater choice to build and run their applications to serve end-users from AWS data centers located in Malaysia. This will enable Malaysia organizations to meet the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDIGITAL) goals, and advance the country’s Malaysia MADANI vision to build a highly skilled, innovative, prosperous, and sustainable economy.
AWS’s investment is also expected to create a ripple effect across Malaysia, creating employment opportunities across the data center supply chain, accelerating productivity gains, empowering digital transformation, and upskilling the workforce in cloud and generative AI skills.
