Amazon may locate data centers in Kazakhstan

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President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Amazon Vice President Susan Pointer to discuss cooperation in the field of cloud technologies. The Ministry of Digital Development of Kazakhstan and AWS have signed an agreement for the acquisition of the Outpost solution and the launch of a pilot project for integration with the QazTech platform. This is expected to lay the foundation for the establishment of data centers and the realization of the country's potential as a regional IT hub.

Kazakhstan plans to introduce Amazon Web Services into state information systems.

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met in New York with Amazon Corporation's Vice President Susan Pointer and discussed opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation in the development of cloud technologies and the construction of data centers.

As part of the meeting, an agreement was signed between the Ministry of Digital Development and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan and Amazon Web Services for the acquisition of the Outpost cloud solution and the launch of a pilot project for its integration with the QazTech platform.

Outpost is a pool of AWS compute and storage resources deployed on the customer's premises. AWS or Amazon Web Services is a commercial public cloud supported and developed by Amazon since 2006. AWS manages, monitors, and distributes capacity within a region.

The agreement is expected to lay the foundation for hosting data centers of global players in Kazakhstan and realizing the country's potential as a regional IT hub.

Source: bluescreen.kz

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