Amazon to Invest Over $5 Billion in Data Centers in Taiwan
Amazon AMZN 0.33%increase; green up pointing triangle plans to invest over $5 billion in a cluster of data centers in Taiwan. The investment will support the launch of a new cloud services region on the island.
The region will give developers, startups and enterprises more options to run applications and serve end-users from AWS data centers in Taiwan, the company said Thursday.
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