Amazon Web Services Expands in Japan

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding in Japan through the opening of a new availability zone. The move means that AWS will most likely be adding more data centers to keep up with the steady demand in service it has had since it first began offering its service in Tokyo 18 months ago. AWS breaks its regions into availability zones. Each availability zone can encompass multiple data centers. For example, the AWS US East region in Northern Virginia now occupies more than ten data centers. That means it is likely AWS could be building new data centers in Japan for its new availability zone as well as the two it opened since early 2011.

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