The hosted web services division of Amazon is making a major commitment to its operational presence in Taiwan.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. The new AWS region will give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as education, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations, greater flexibility for running their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in Taiwan.

This will help ensure that Taiwan-based AWS customers who want to keep their content onshore can do so. As part of its long-term commitment, Amazon is planning to invest more than $5 billion to support its data centers in Taiwan. The company has been investing in Taiwan cloud infrastructure since

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