AWS Launches New Region in Hong Kong

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com organization (NASDAQ:AMZN), today reported the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. With this dispatch, AWS now traverses 64 Availability Zones inside 21 geographic areas around the globe, and has reported designs for 12 greater Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth dynamic AWS Region in Asia Pacific and terrain China alongside Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Beginning today, designers, new businesses, and ventures, just as government, instruction, and non-benefit associations can use the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region to run their applications locally, serve end-clients crosswise over Hong Kong with lower inactivity, and influence trend setting innovations from the world's driving cloud with the broadest and most profound suite of cloud administrations to drive development

"Hong Kong is all around perceived as a main monetary tech center point and one of the top spots where new businesses fabricate their organizations, so we've had numerous clients approaching us for an AWS Region in Hong Kong so they can assemble their organizations on the world's driving cloud with the broadest and most profound list of capabilities," said Peter DeSantis, Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. "The dynamic business condition that exists in Hong Kong – among new companies, endeavors, and government associations – is pushing them to be one of the preeminent computerized territories in Asia. By giving an AWS Region in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, we trust this empowers more clients to be progressively lithe, develop, and change their end-clients' understanding for a considerable length of time to come."

"We are charmed to see the official dispatch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, and it comes when we are grasping computerized change and forming into a global advancement and innovation center," said Nicholas W Yang, JP, Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. "Information has turned into another cash of the advanced economy and another fuel for development. This foundation locale is an essential part to encourage innovation headways, taking into account more prominent advancement and further encouraging our computerized change. The opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region likewise improves our driving position as an information center and puts Hong Kong in a solid position to lead the following flood of advancement in information related innovations."

The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region offers three Availability Zones at dispatch. AWS Regions are involved Availability Zones, which are innovation framework in isolated and unmistakable geographic areas with enough separation to fundamentally diminish the danger of a solitary occasion affecting business coherence, yet close enough to give low idleness to high accessibility applications. Every Availability Zone has autonomous power, cooling, and physical security and is associated through repetitive, ultra-low-inertness systems. AWS clients concentrated on high accessibility can plan their applications to keep running in different Availability Zones to accomplish considerably more prominent adaptation to internal failure. With the size of three Availability Zones, the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will empower associations to give lower inactivity to end clients in Hong Kong, and crosswise over Asia Pacific. Furthermore, neighborhood AWS clients with information residency prerequisites would now be able to store their substance in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with the confirmation that their substance won't move without assent, while clients building applications currently approach another safe AWS framework area that meets the most elevated amounts of security, consistence, and information assurance.

Clients and APN Partners welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region

A great many dynamic clients are utilizing AWS every month in more than 190 nations around the globe, including countless clients in Asia Pacific, and a huge number of clients in Hong Kong. Associations crosswise over Hong Kong are moving their main goal basic outstanding burdens to AWS to drive cost reserve funds, quicken advancement, and accelerate time-to-showcase, including undertaking clients, for example, Asia Miles, Cathay Pacific, Chinachem Group, Comba Telecom, Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited, HK01, HSBC, Hong Kong Disneyland, Kerry Logistics, KeptMe, KPMG China, Melco Resorts and Entertainment, New World Development, Next Digital, Ocean Park, Royale International Group, Swire Coca-Cola, Towngas, Turner, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Union Medical Healthcare. AWS is additionally an empowering agent for Hong Kong's best new companies, for example, 8 Securities, 9GAG, AfterShip, Bowtie, FinFabrik, GreenTomato, GRANA, Gogo Tech, Haymarket, Kopi, Lalamove, Madhead, polljoy, PIXELS, Prenetics, SHOPLINE, Vyond, WeLend, WiZ Connected, and some more.

Cathay Pacific, the Hong Kong-based universal aircraft, has been utilizing AWS since 2016, helping the carrier convey client driven items and administrations responsively, conveying an abnormal state of execution and unwavering quality for Cathay Pacific's site and booking motor framework. "AWS helped us re-designer and modernize our innovation stacks into a cloud local structure, diminishing the product advancement span time by 67 percent and foundation costs by 50 percent. This enabled us to improve our productivity and time-to-showcase altogether," said Lawrence Fong, General Manager, IT Solutions, and Information Technology of Cathay Pacific. "AWS's amazing and driving suite of administrations has opened up a universe of conceivable outcomes to our IT group, putting the first innovation readily available so we can test new ideas, and convey imaginative thoughts rapidly to our end-clients. One such plan to-execution is to empower blockchain innovation for Asia Miles, which will give Asia Miles accomplices a solitary information source while overseeing account movement with a close constant capacity to oversee rewards. Conveying another AWS Region to Hong Kong decreases inertness for our building group, helping them test quicker and convey new devices to our explorers, at last bringing about a superior client experience."

Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), broadcasting in Hong Kong since 1967, is the first wireless commercial TV station in Hong Kong. As Hong Kong’s largest broadcaster, TVB provides around-the-clock entertainment and news to more than seven million Hong Kong viewers, and operates an international licensing and distribution business accessible in more than 200 countries and regions. “During the year, our terrestrial TV channels continue to capture robust viewership and report an average audience share of 82 percent against all TV channels, both free and pay, during weekday prime time,” said SK Cheong, TVB Executive Director and General Manager. “We have transformed from a traditional TV station to a complete spectrum of media platforms spanning terrestrial TV, over-the-top (OTT) service, and social media, and AWS helps us handle traffic spikes, uplift service availability, and boost productivity of our digital media business during this journey. By leveraging the vast amount of features that AWS offers, we have been able to build a new content marketing and e-commerce business model in our online video platform, Big Big Channel, and take a leading role in transforming standard television to a full digitalized and interactive experience. With the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we will further strengthen our technology platform, lower latency to online viewers, and continue toward our goal to expand our digital business to a global scale.”

New World Development (NWD) is one of Hong Kong's biggest organizations centered around property improvement, framework, and administrations. New World Development creates and puts resources into properties in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, territory China, and Southeast Asia, and its portfolio incorporates advancement and interest in around 24 million square feet of Hong Kong private and business property; interests in 17 lodgings; and an extra 4.5 million square feet of land made arrangements for improvement. "By running on AWS, we have decreased our opportunity to-advertise by 30 percent, and improved administration accessibility by up to 50 percent, all while sparing 60 percent on our general foundation cost contrasted with running on-premises server farms," said Jason Lui, Assistant General Manager, Technology and Digital Services, New World Development. "NWD utilizes administrations like Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Cloudfront, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Workdocs, Amazon Workspaces, AWS IAM, AWS WAF, and AWS Certificate Manager. Presently, with the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we can use a greater amount of AWS's administrations at close quick speed, which just encourages our innovation venture."

Swire Coca-Cola is one of the biggest Coca-Cola bottlers on the planet with the elite rights to make, showcase and appropriate items from The Coca-Cola Company in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan, 11 territories and the Shanghai Municipality in territory China, just as a broad zone of the western United States. "We began our cloud venture with AWS in 2018, with a conviction that betting everything on cloud would quicken development, and accelerate time-to-advertise, which at last will help our business development," said Calvin Ho, Group Manager of Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Service and IT Operations. "We are wanting to resign our current server farms, sparing us cash on framework costs, while expanding our operational spryness with the security and unwavering quality that AWS gives. We anticipate expanding our organization with AWS in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, while modernizing our advanced applications so we can give a superior encounter to our clients in Hong Kong, and crosswise over Greater China."

Tie, an Insurtech firm, was conceded Hong Kong's first virtual insurance agency permit in 2018. Virtual back up plans need to fulfill similar guidelines that controllers expect of customary safety net providers, and Bowtie has utilized AWS's innovation to pull in both a more youthful age, and current clients for an advantageous encounter as a site and a portable application. "As a genuinely 'made in Hong Kong' protection brand, Bowtie is here to rethink protection," said Michael Chan, Co-originator and Co-CEO of Bowtie. "Necktie runs its center framework stage, including approach organization, asserts and guaranteeing applications on AWS. Expanding over AWS has enabled us to guarantee our organization works in a very secure and accessible space as expected of insurance agencies working in an exceedingly managed condition. AWS has more security confirmations than some other cloud supplier, bringing our clients, and us, a genuine feelings of serenity that couldn't be accomplished with another cloud stage. With the dispatch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we will likewise have the capacity to meet any necessities to keep our remaining tasks at hand on Hong Kong Special Administrative Region soil."

WeLab, a main Fintech organization in Asia, is reexamining conventional monetary administrations by making consistent portable encounters with restrictive hazard the board innovation and man-made reasoning abilities, working in both B2C and B2B sections. The startup has as of late been allowed a virtual financial permit by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, turning into the primary home-developed Hong Kong Fintech organization to set up a virtual bank. In Hong Kong, purchaser financing arrangements are offered to retail clients under the brand WeLend. "We influence the innovation broadness and steadiness of AWS to maintain our business, for instance, utilizing AWS to break down unstructured portable huge information to settle using a credit card choices for individual borrowers like a flash," said Eddie Tse, Head of IT, WeLend.




"The straightforwardness and commoditization of advancements that AWS conveys empowers us to be progressively deft and hold more opportunity to take care of genuine business issues as opposed to regular stage difficulties. The dispatch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will additionally enable us to utilize a greater amount of AWS's driving cloud administrations, and move outstanding tasks at hand that require low dormancy or information residency necessities to execute in the cloud."

AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners respected the entry of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. The APN incorporates countless Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Systems Integrators (SI) around the globe. APN Partners assemble creative arrangements and administrations on AWS and the APN helps by giving business, specialized, showcasing, and go-to-advertise support. SI Consulting Partners supporting undertaking and open division clients in Hong Kong to move to AWS incorporate Accenture, Capgemini, China Mobile International, Cloudaxis, CloudConnect, DXC Technology, eCloudValley, GrandTech Cloud Services, ICG, Infosys, Masterson Technology, Nextlink Technology, Rackspace, Telstra, GrowthOps, WTT HK, and numerous others. APN ISVs in Hong Kong including Deskvault, Multiable, NanoMatriX, RADICA,

Torstone Technology, and numerous others, are as of now utilizing AWS to convey their product to clients around the globe and will serve their Hong Kong clients from the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region at dispatch. Clients can likewise effectively discover, preliminary, convey, and purchase programming answers for AWS on the AWS Marketplace. For the full rundown of the individuals from the AWS Partner Network, it would be ideal if you visit: https://aws.amazon.com/accomplices/.

Accenture, a long-lasting APN Consulting Partner, is a main worldwide expert administrations organization, giving an expansive scope of administrations and arrangements in technique, counseling, computerized, innovation, and activities. With 477,000 individuals serving customers in excess of 120 nations, Accenture drives advancement to improve the way the world works and lives. "With about 15 years of cooperation with AWS, Accenture has built answers for a huge number of utilizations on AWS and utilizes in excess of 5,000 cloud experts prepared and affirmed on AWS which are quickening development for customers all around," said Peter Yen, overseeing chief and clever designing administrations lead at Accenture Greater China.


"The Accenture Amazon Business Group (AABG) additionally holds 13 AWS granted skills in SAP, security, versatile, IOT, huge information, and AI, among others. Accenture is focused on helping nearby customers contend at a worldwide dimension by joining AWS in their Hong Kong dispatch and growing our very own devoted AABG group in Hong Kong. With amazing outcomes for customers, for example, Cathay Pacific, Accenture is presently more prepared than any other time in recent memory to help Hong Kong customers consistently over each industry."

Mutually designed by VMware and AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-request crossover cloud administration that is conveyed, sold, and bolstered by VMware and its accomplices. VMware Cloud on AWS empowers clients to run applications over a predictable VMware vSphere-based cross breed cloud condition, with enhanced access to an expansive scope of AWS administrations. "Clients crosswise over Asia Pacific and in all enterprises control their advanced organizations utilizing both AWS and VMware," said Duncan Hewett, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific and Japan at VMware.


"Many need to coordinate their on-premises server farms with AWS to make a reliable crossover cloud condition. VMware Cloud on AWS conveys on this guarantee and we anticipate stretching out the inclusion to the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) in 2019. We anticipate enabling clients to rapidly and certainly scale up or down limit, without change or erosion, and quicken their cloud movements."

RADICA gives advanced showcasing answers for around 300 organizations, working with clients crosswise over Asia to enable customers to support the estimation of their client information and client relationship the board (CRM) frameworks for email, portable, and online life informing efforts. The Hong Kong-headquartered organization offers a restrictive e-correspondence coordination stage which mechanizes battle action and conveys upwards of three million showcasing messages multi day. "To boost spryness, we have moved the e-correspondence stage to AWS, reshaping and fortifying our IT foundation,


" said Wallis Chan, Managing Director of RADICA. "We have had the capacity to upgrade our administrations altogether and can dispatch multi-channel crusades for new customers around 80 percent quicker. Beforehand, clients may have needed to hold as long as a quarter of a year to convey this stage for computerized crusades. RADICA utilizes different Amazon EC2 example types including M4, C4, R3, and l2, which gives fast SSD-sponsored case stockpiling for high irregular I/O execution. Half of our IT group is currently ready to focus on improvement rather than organization. We trust that the dispatch of AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will additionally enable us to drive our business forward."