Amazon Web Services opens Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore

He added that he is “heartened” to see that AWS, together with the opening of its new regional hub, will be growing its teams in areas such as software engineering, machine learning and data centre engineering. 

“These types of roles will enable our workers, the people of Singapore, to seek out employment opportunities and be at the forefront of technological advancement,” Dr Puthucheary said. 

The US company currently has more than 2,500 employees in Singapore, across its cloud, corporate, retail, technology and operations divisions. Amazon said it plans to hire over 100 additional employees for cloud and corporate roles, expanding its local workforce.

“This investment together with our previous planned investments across the region, reflects our confidence in Singapore and the region’s position as a technology hub,” said Mr Jeff Johnson, AWS’ managing director of ASEAN. 

The new office will house more than 100 teams, including local and regional employees supporting AWS and other corporate functions.

“AWS customers and partners will be welcomed to use its office for focused co-working sessions, creative brainstorms in dedicated innovation rooms, hands-on technical workshops, or informal networking in their community spaces,” AWS said in a news release.

The office has 12 large training rooms that can hold between 40 and 60 people each, and meeting rooms and training rooms equipped with video-conferencing and other audio visual capabilities. 

Additionally, the office will hold AWS’ first flagship executive briefing centre in Asia, and an AWS Asia-Pacific innovation hub is also slated to open by the third quarter of the year.