Amazon: AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region is open today

$Amazon (AMZN.US)$ Amazon (AMZN.US) announced on Tuesday that its cloud computing company AWS has launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region in Indonesia.

From now on, developers, companies, as well as government, educational and non-profit organizations can run their applications and provide services to end users through data centers in Indonesia.

AWS said it plans to invest approximately US$5 billion in Indonesia in the next 15 years through the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. This includes capital expenditures for building data centers, operating expenses related to utility and facility costs, and expenditures for purchasing goods and services from regional companies.

Article excerpted from the US Stock Research Agency