Amazon customers in the Asia Pacific Region can now run their cloud computing infrastructure in a data center located in their Region, as Amazon is now hosting services in a data center in Singapore.
“By leveraging AWS’ physical infrastructure in Asia, we are able to minimize latency for our KE Trade iPhone mobile trading app and the speed of our app will not be compromised if there are any sudden spikes in end user traffic,” said Ong Seng Gee, Executive Director, Kim Eng Securities. “Going forward, Kim Eng intends to use AWS cloud computing infrastructure to help enhance our development capability and product innovation, to reinforce our position as a leading stockbroker in Asia.”
“We weighed our options and the decision to use AWS was clearly the best option for launching and running the IPL Indiagames T20Fever game on Facebook,” said Vishal Gondal, CEO of Indiagames. “We have demanding infrastructure requirements and AWS allows us to focus on our business while reducing operational overhead. By leveraging Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon CloudFront, we’ve been able to handle thousands of gamers concurrently without having to spend a rupee on physical infrastructure.”
