New Amazon location (Jakarta)
Data center AWS It is now available in Jakarta, Indonesia, and you can start using it today. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region is the tenth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and Mainland China, joining Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. With this launch, AWS is now available in 84 cities in 26 countries worldwide.
We have also announced plans for 24 Availability Zones and eight additional AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.
Jakarta Server Services
Applications running in this 3-AZ region can use C5, C5d, I3, I3en, M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and T3 instances and can leverage a long list of AWS services including Amazon API Gateway, Application Auto Scaling, AWS Certificates.
Manager (ACM), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Config, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon DynamoDB Store, Amazon. (EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Application Load Balancers (Classic, Network, and Application), Amazon EMR, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Glacier, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS Lambda, AWS Marketplace, AWS Organizations, AWS Personal Health Dashboard, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon Route 53 (including Private DNS for VPC), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), AWS Step Functions, AWS Support API, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and VM Import/Export.
Connectivity, edge locations, and latency
Jakarta currently hosts an Amazon CloudFront edge location that opened earlier this year, along with two brand new AWS Direct Connect locations. In addition to this on-premises infrastructure, there are over sixty other edge locations and several regional edge caches in Asia, as described on the AWS Global Infrastructure page.
This region offers low-latency connections to other AWS regions in the region. Here are the latest numbers:
AWS in Indonesia
With this launch, Amazon is making a long-term commitment to growing its business in Indonesia, and is expected to create an average of 24,700 jobs annually over the next 15 years. This includes the direct AWS supply chain (construction, facility maintenance, electricity and telecommunications) along with the growth it creates in the wider Indonesian economy.
Amazon has been investing in Southeast Asia and Indonesia for years. The first AWS office in Jakarta opened in 2018 to help support its customers and now employs developer advocates, solution architects, account managers and partner managers, with hiring for other roles underway.
In 2019, Amazon announced a goal to train and empower hundreds of thousands of Indonesians with cloud skills by 2025. Working with the Indonesian government and with the help of AWS partners and educational institutions, Amazon has already trained more than 200,000 people. This is being done through multiple pathways and programs, including:
Laptops for Makers – This is a free program that teaches high school and vocational students in Bahasa, Indonesia about cloud fundamentals.
Scholarship Programs – Working closely with tech education startup Dicoding, it offers a free scholarship program for up to 100,000 cloud and backend developers.
AWS Training and Certification – Participants gain new skills and certifications in areas such as AWS Cloud Fundamentals, Big Data, Security, and Machine Learning, with multiple training options available.
AWS customers in Indonesia
Some of these customers
Traveloka is a lifestyle cloud app focused on Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and Australia. They offer customers in those countries an end-to-end solution that includes travel, local services, and financial services, all powered by AWS.
The company was born in the cloud and relies on AWS to allow them to build apps quickly and with high scalability. The Traveloka app has been downloaded over 60 million times, making it the most popular travel and lifestyle booking app in Southeast Asia.
Halodoc is an Indonesian digital health startup. They are currently implementing a digital reservation app to help Indonesian citizens reserve and receive their COVID-19 vaccine, while providing the government with easier monitoring and evaluation of vaccine supply.
During the pandemic, they have also helped provide testing and telemedicine services, all powered by a digital platform running on AWS that allows them to scale in real time based on market demand.
Under the national Freedom to Learn (“Merdeka Belajar”) movement, the Indonesian government is working to allow students to access educational resources from anywhere, anytime. SIMK Online allows 300,000 students from 430 schools across Jakarta to access their learning materials and assignments, complete their assignments, give examples, and participate in online forum discussions.
Previously hosted on-premises, Simek Online moved to AWS shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia. Before the move, they could only support exams in 50 schools at a time. Thanks to AWS, they can now scale up and down as needed, supporting a national movement to allow students to learn online and on-demand.
