Amazon To Offer Its Cloud Services From Inside China

Grazed from CruxialCIO. Author: Brian T. Horowitz.

Amazon Web Services has signed an agreement to expand its ability to provide cloud computing services from data centers located inside China. The company announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Dec. 18 with the Beijing and Ningxia governments. Businesses such as Xiaomi Qihoo 360, TCL, Tiens, NQ Mobile, FunPlus Kingsoft, Mobotap and Papaya Mobile already work with AWS in China.

During a limited preview of its China Region, a select China-based and multinational companies will be able to use the AWS platforms to run their applications. Chinese providers ChinaNetCenter and SINNET will offer the infrastructure, bandwidth and network capabilities to allow AWS to operate in the country…

Services that will operate in the Beijing Region include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). By allowing companies in China to run their applications on AWS using infrastructure located in the country, they’ll be able to reduce latency for local users and allow companies to more easily store their data in China…

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