Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts – An ASEAN Perspective, Part 2: What’s Next for Providers and Buyers

A. Amir

Summary Bullets:

• Apart from providing technical certification and accreditation to partners, enhancing their consulting/advisory capability is also a crucial area for AWS to win in the region.
• Enterprises with strict data residency requirements should consider migrating their data from on-premises to Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts to access the wide range of features and development tools offered by the hyperscaler as well as seamless integration with workloads in AWS Regions.

The first part of this post, ”Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts – An ASEAN Perspective, Part 1: Addressing Enterprises’ Key Concern in Data Storage,” analyzes the solution and how it will address the ASEAN market.

Despite the promising demand, ASEAN is a highly competitive market and has attracted various other players including Alibaba and Google Cloud. Microsoft has a strong presence and has been strengthening its footprint in the region. There are several areas AWS could consider to drive greater market impact in the region with Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts.

Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts – An ASEAN Perspective, Part 1: Addressing Enterprises’ Key Concern in Data Storage

A. Amir

Summary Bullets:

• Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts will address the increasing need for data storage and drive edge computing requirements in the region.
• The traction for hosted storage is aligned with the growing cloud adoption in the region; enterprise spending on cloud is expected to increase by 6% in 2020.

Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts

AWS announced the availability of Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts across its global footprints to meet customers’ demands for low-latency applications, local data processing, and data residency. Based on the same APIs and tools used for the Amazon S3 on AWS Regions, the solution offers consistent experience and performance to enterprises for management and orchestration of workload across different locations.