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Executive Column: AWS to invest $5b in Indonesia’s digital transformation
Amazon Web Services’ managing director for ASEAN spoke to The Jakarta Post’s Deni Ghifari about the company’s philosophy, its views on Indonesia and the digital transformation.
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AWS ASEAN managing director Conor McNamara (AWS/-)
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em>Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the biggest global players in internet technology, says it is ready to help Indonesia embrace the digital transformation.
The US-based company set up its Jakarta infrastructure "region" in December 2021 and has committed to investing US$5 billion in the country over a period of 15 years.
AWS ASEAN managing director Conor McNamara spoke to The Jakarta Post’s Deni Ghifari on Aug. 31 about the company’s philosophy, its views on Indonesia and the digital transformation.
Question: What are your plans in Indonesia?
Answer: AWS is [...] easily a billion-dollar run rate business globally and growing at 33 percent year-on-year. In Indonesia, the region announcement was a really big statement for us. We made a commitment to invest $5 billion in the country over the next 15 years. So that's a forward-looking commitment to the country, and that investment will be broken into multiple different categories.
The first one, obviously, is the infrastructure. We have a three-availability-zone region. An availability zone is one or more data centers, separate power grids, separate floodplains, physically separated. It gives customers a level of resiliency and redundancy [for] how they run their workloads. And how we operate and run that infrastructure also [requires] big investment.
The second one is our extended team. [We will also allocate a sum of that investment to] all of our team in Indonesia over that [15-year] period in terms of our support organization, official services organization, our public policy, and legal and marketing [departments], etc.
