Amazon goes live with Asia Pacific web services

from ITnews.com.au:

>>Amazon goes live with Asia Pacific web services

Launches server and storage on demand from Singapore data centres.

Amazon.com has launched its cloud computing services in the Asia Pacific region with services being available from undisclosed data centres in Singapore as of today.

Amazon.com told iTnews the Singapore-based versions of Amazon Web Services (Enterprise Cloud Compute and Simple Storage Service) will provide Australian customers with lower latency times (ie better response times) than connecting to the AWS cloud compute in the United States.

Amazon.com senior vice president of web services Andy Jassy told iTnews that the Singapore facilities are a beachhead on a wider expansion plan (read the full interview with Jassy here).

The company has hopes of launching its own presence in Australia in the near future.

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from peeringdb.com:

The following locations and associated IX's are part of Amazon's Asia-Pac Core Network, carrying routes/traffic for other AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3), as well as local CloudFront caching. For each of these locations, Amazon will provide routes/traffic for all services within the Asia-Pac region.
- Singapore

Public Peering Exchange Points
Exchange Point Name	ASN	IP Address	Mbit/sec
Equinix Ashburn	16509	206.223.115.35	10000
Equinix Ashburn	16509	206.223.115.68	10000
Equinix Chicago	16509	EQX CH (Apr/May) coming soon...	10000
Equinix Dallas	16509	EQX DFW (Apr/May) coming soon...	10000
Equinix Los Angeles	16509	EQX LA (Apr/May) coming soon...	10000
Equinix Singapore	38895	EQX SG (Apr) coming soon...	10000
Equinix Tokyo	16509	EQX TY (Apr) coming soon...	10000