By Ben Otto


Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend more than $5 billion to build data centers and other infrastructure in Thailand as it expands the global reach of its cloud services.

Amazon Web Services, the Seattle-based tech giant's cloud-computing arm, said late Monday that it will develop cloud infrastructure in Thailand to enable users to run their applications and serve customers from its data centers located in the country. AWS said it is planning an estimated investment of more than $5 billion in Thailand over 15 years.

The outlay includes building three "availability zones," where cloud infrastructure is spaced out with enough distance to cut the risk of a single event causing widespread outages but close enough to provide users with low latency. The zones will add to 87 others around the world and are part of two dozen under development in countries including Australia, Canada and India, AWS said.

AWS is the largest cloud-computing provider in the U.S., providing services that allow customers, including many large businesses, to rent computing, storage and network capabilities.

The infrastructure in Thailand "will enable organizations to build with AWS technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, data analytics, and Internet of Things," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS.

Supattanapong Punmeechaow, deputy prime minister of Thailand, described the plan to build data centers in the country as a "significant milestone that will bring advanced cloud computing services to more organizations."

Companies using AWS services in Thailand include the Stock Exchange of Thailand, conglomerate Siam Cement Group and retailer CP ALL, AWS said.


Write to Ben Otto at ben.otto@wsj.com


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10-18-22 0611ET