Partners primed as AWS turns on cloud in Thailand

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled plans to help accelerate adoption of the Thailand Government Cloud following a new agreement with the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand (MDES).

Terms of the memorandum of understanding will allow MDES and Thai government agencies the option of using AWS solutions and services as part of the Government Data Centre and Cloud Service (GDCC), which runs as a central cloud infrastructure for government agencies.

Specifically, businesses will be able to leverage more than 200 fully-featured AWS Cloud services — including security and infrastructure capabilities — alongside identifying “strategic pilot workloads” to run on AWS…