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Amazon Reaches Out to Japan Partners, Customers with Datacenter

• By Jeffrey Schwartz
• March 02, 2011

In a broad outreach to partners and customers in the Asia-Pacific region, Amazon Web Services (AWS) today said it has opened a datacenter in Tokyo.

The new location in Japan marks the fifth region where AWS has a presence. The Tokyo datacenter is aimed at serving Japanese-based businesses and global organizations with a presence in the region. It supports the country's native language. Amazon said it will accommodate billing in Japanese Yen within the next several months.

"Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low-latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences and mobile devices," said Amazon CTO Werner Vogels in a blog post. "With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure Web services directly connected to Japanese networks." Vogels added that the Tokyo datacenter is a viable option for customers in South Korea.

Amazon pointed to a number of companies that intend to use the new datacenters, including Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Cookpad, Olympus Memory Works Corp., SUUMO and social game developers gumi Inc. and Zynga.

In addition, Amazon said it has a large number of partners in the Tokyo region, including Accenture Japan, Business Architects, CSK, EC-One, Hitachi Solutions, ISID, Intramart CSI, Iret (Cloudpack), JB Advanced Technology, Manabing, Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co. Ltd., Nomura Research and Institute (NRI), Serverworks, TIS (Sonic Garden), Toshiba, WingArc Technologies and Works Applications. 

ISV partners committed to supporting their platforms in the new location include Adobe, BitRock, Engine Yard, enStratus, Esri, IBM, Novell, Oracle, RightScale, Riverbed and SOASTA. 

All of Amazon's core services in Tokyo are available immediately.