News & Reviews:   Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday announced that it is planning to launch an AWS Infrastructure Region in Malaysia. Furthermore, AWS, which is an Amazon.com Inc. company also announced that it will invest USD6 billion or approximately ~RM25.5 billion in Malaysia by 2037, the largest international technology investment to date in our country.

The Senior Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali today revealed that the federal government has given approval to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to invest into Malaysia. The company is expected to make major investment to develop data centres within our country this year. 

Amazon had a big event yesterday and launched a variety of new products. But aside from new devices, there's also a new service aimed at gamers. Specifically, we're talking about the Amazon Luna, Amazon's new cloud gaming service that's now in early access.

Amazon Web Services recently showed off their services for Malaysian users and web developers. This time around they focused on gaming and mobile which should be good news for all the upcoming web app and game developers here in Malaysia. Through various services, developers can easily manage the resource needs of their web apps or games in an elastic manner, allowing for costs to grow as needs grow, so your game or app will never crash due to increase in users but you won't have to pay more than what was used. They also highlighted various scenarios and services which may be useful to game and app developers.