Minister: Amazon Web Services to build data centres in Jakarta

The Amazon Web Services logo at an Amazon.com Inc annual cloud computing conference in the United States in 2017. Amazon Web Services plans to build an infrastructure region in Jakarta. — Reuters

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will build an infrastructure "region” in Jakarta by the end of next year or early 2022 in the biggest investment in Indonesia's the information and technology sector, a high-ranking official has said.

Jakarta will also have three Availability Zones consisting of several interconnected data centres, according to Indonesia's Industry Ministry.