OMNI Features｜AWS to Launch an Infrastructure Region in Taiwan by Early 2025．Singapore EMA Plans Enhancing Grid Flexibility and Resilience to Increased Share of Renewable Energy

｜AWS to Launch an Infrastructure Region in Taiwan by Early 2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company on 12th announced it will launch an AWS infrastructure Region in Taiwan by early 2025. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as education, entertainment, financial services, and nonprofit organizations, greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in Taiwan, ensuring that customers who want to keep their content in Taiwan can do so. As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest billions of dollars in Taiwan over the next 15 years.

Organizations in Taiwan are among the millions of active customers using AWS in more than 190 countries and territories around the world that choose AWS to innovate, drive cost efficiencies, and accelerate launch time. Organizations in Taiwan that choose AWS to run their workloads include Acer, Cathay Financial Holdings, Chunghwa Telecom, Gamania, KKCompany, Maicoin, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Trend Micro, and more.

The new AWS Region will consist of 3 Availability Zones at launch, adding to AWS's existing 105 Availability Zones across 33 geographic regions globally. With today’s announcement, AWS has plans to launch 21 more Availability Zones and 7 more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

AWS Regions consist of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance.

Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS, said: "The new AWS Region in Taiwan will enable organizations to unlock the full potential of the cloud and build with AWS technologies like compute, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive innovation and transform the way businesses and institutions serve their customers."

｜EMA Plans Enhancing Grid Flexibility and Resilience to Increased Share of Renewable Energy
As Singapore looks to integrate more renewable energy into its electricity grid to green its energy mix, the Energy Market Authority (EMA) is incorporating additional capabilities to improve the grid's resilience and reliability, it said on June 11.

Singapore has set a goal of reaching 2 GW-peak of solar capacity by 2030 and has achieved around 1.2 GW-peak as at the first quarter of 2024. Solar energy, which currently accounts for less than 1% of domestic generation, could account for about 10 % of its projected demand in 2050.

Therefore, EMA will be adding a solar photovoltaic (PV) forecasting model to its grid, which will help to better predict solar output and take pre-emptive measures to manage such intermittency. The new energy management system is also capable of modelling any type of electricity generation plants, including geothermal energy and electricity imports, said EMA.

Reference:Amazon｜The Straitstimes