Amazon to Open More Cloud Centers in Southeast Asia for Better Data Protection

Amazon.Com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is establishing cloud regions in Southeast Asia in response to customer demands for secure local data storage.

“The reason for this is that many of our customers have been asking for that. They really wanted something local such that they can meet, for example, local data storage requirements, or protection of personal identifiable information,” CNBC cites from Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels’ interview.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud…