AWS Launches Two New Korean Datacentres

AWS has launched two new datacentres in Seoul to extend its cloud computing services into a fifth Asia-Pacific region.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it will launch services for its fifth Asia-Pacific region in Seoul, South Korea, with two data centers with redundant power, allowing customers to operate at high latency and scalable applications in a fault-tolerant environment.

"Customers continue to choose as AWS infrastructure technology platform, because we have many more features than any other cloud provider, partner and customer ecosystem much larger built around AWS, and maturity unparalleled security and performance," he said Andy Jassy, ​​senior vice president of AWS.

"Our customers and Korean partners have asked us to build an infrastructure of AWS in Korea so they can run more workloads on AWS and approve new initiatives that could change your business and the customer experience. We are excited to offer this to our customers today. "

AWS also works on its cloud computing infrastructure to Korean customers, having worked with system integrators and global Bespin, Megazone, GS and Neotek Vsystems to help companies in their migration to AWS, deploying applications on AWS , and help monitor, automate and manage customer environments AWS.

The local independent software vendors, including Dreamline, TmaxSoft, IGAWorks, AhnLab Hancom and also work with AWS to provide integrated solutions for software, security and connectivity.

Educating the AWS program also takes in eight universities in the region, including Seoul National University, Sogang University and Yonsei University to provide students with training in cloud computing. The program was launched in May 2015, with more than 1,000 Korean students participating.

AWS cloud now operates in 12 regions worldwide, with an additional four regions - the UK, China, India, and Ohio - scheduled for launch this year.

Amazon recently revealed that his unit AWS had done most of the profits of the company for 2015.

According to Pacific Crest analyst Brent Bracelin, however, profit margins AWS "can fall through the investment of the company in moving into new areas.

"While AWS does not expand into new regions in 2015, the company looks set to add a record four new regions in 2016 in three new countries: the United Kingdom, India, South Korea and a new area of ​​Ohio on US "Bracelin said in a research note.

"This should increase capital spending, which could put pressure on operating margins ... Each region has a growing importance, given this year, on average, each region generates approximately $ 715 million in sales. The average income by region more than doubled in the past two years. "

Amazon has yet to publish its results for the fourth quarter of 2015, but said in a blog post earlier this week it would cut prices of its C4, M4 and R3 Elastic Compute Cloud about 5 percent in the US If Linux ., Asia, Asia-Pacific and European regions.

These price falls after the announcement of Amazon earlier this week opened its general availability cloud-based email service and the company calendar almost a year after the first announcement Workmail.

In a blog post by the head of AWS Evangelist Jeff Barr Monday, Amazon said the preview mode has been completed, with the commonly available service in three regions of AWS.

"The security features and controls ... Workmail include controlling the location, encryption of stored data, analysis and protects against spam messages and viruses policies and actions to control mobile devices," said Barr .

"I am pleased to announce that Amazon Workmail is now generally available in three regions of AWS. The US (Northern Virginia), West of the United States (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland)"

Workmail was built as a back-end support for native Microsoft Outlook on Windows and Mac OS X, and is able to integrate with multiple existing enterprise directories such as Microsoft Active Directory. Mailboxes can also be synchronized with iOS, Android, Amazon Fire, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone devices using the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol.

All data is encrypted using SSL Workmail Amazon, the service costs $ 4 per month for each user 50 GB of storage. Up to 25 users in a company can also access a free trial of 30 days of service.

"Customers have asked us repeatedly for business email and calendar service is more cost effective and easier to manage your on-premise, safer than cloud offerings available today solution, which supported the best in class infrastructure platform in being reliable performance as your current - and future - workloads, "Vice President of Services AWS Compute Peter De Santis said in announcing the service in January 2015.

"We built Amazon Workmail to meet these demands and help businesses achieve the agility and savings AWS leaving undifferentiated handle the heavy lifting involved in corporate email and calendar."