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Amazon Web Services in China
Why Amazon Web Services?
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. Amazon Web Services has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 108 Availability Zones within 34 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more Amazon Web Services Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and more. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust Amazon Web Services to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
Amazon Web Services in China
Amazon Web Services came to China in 2013. Amazon Web Services launched its China (Beijing) Region (operated by Sinnet) in September 2016 and its China (Ningxia) Region (operated by NWCD) in December 2017. In April 2019, Amazon Web Services added a new region in Hong Kong. The Amazon Web Services Partner Network has thousands of Partners in China. Amazon Web Services has supported over 10,000 local startups and has provided cloud skills training to over 1,700,000 talents. Amazon has also supported four renewable energy projects in China, including Amazon Solar Farm-Shandong, Amazon Wind Farm-Qian’an, Amazon Wind Farm-Daqing, and Amazon Wind Farm-Bobai. The first three projects are already operational. Amazon Web Services has supported two water replenishment projects in China, the Beijing Huairou Ertaizi Village River Restoration Project, and the Guangdong Xiankeng Village and Zuotan Village Constructed Wetlands Project.
Amazon Web Services’ vision in China: As the global leader of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services is committed to being the best place for companies to build and use generative AI, accelerating their digital transformation and innovation by providing secure, reliable and trusted cloud services, while being rooted locally and connected globally.
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Unmatched Breadth and Depth of Services and Features
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We have millions of active customers globally, covering enterprises and organizations of all sizes, industries, and types. This experience helps us support local customers as they transform and innovate.
Infrastructure for Establishing Global Footprint
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Globally-Proven Security Expertise & Compliance Practices
Following a shared responsibility model, we have achieved a number of internationally recognized certifications and accreditations. We also have a deep understanding of local policies, providing a wide variety of best practices for compliance.
The Vibrant Global Partner Community
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Amazon Web Services China Regions
Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet
Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD
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