
Thailand Devoted to Digital Transformation
CIO Review APAC | Monday, July 18, 2022

Government agencies are at a crucial stage. Agencies are adopting newer technologies in response to rising citizen demands and other mission requirements
FREMONT CA: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Thailand's Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES) to assist with the Thailand Government Cloud's digital transformation. The MoU permits MDES and Thai government agencies to consider using AWS as part of Government Data Center and Cloud Service (GDCC), the central cloud infrastructure for government agencies. AWS is the world's most comprehensive and widely accepted cloud service. Over the coming year, MDES will collaborate with other Thai government organizations and AWS to identify strategic pilot workloads to run on AWS through the GDCC. Amazon opened an office in Thailand in May 2016 to better serve Amazon and AWS's local customers. Large public sector organizations such as the King Mongkhut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), the Royal Thai Government, and MDES, as well as Thailand's leading companies Ampos, Bitkub, Central Group, Kasikorn Business-Technology Group (KBTG), SCB Abacus, Robinhood, CP Food, and others, are among the country's customers.
Many technologies and consulting organizations are members of the AWS Partner Network (APN), which can assist agencies in developing and delivering government-specific solutions and supporting workload migration to AWS. Many AWS Technology Partners, such as 2C2P, Omise, and Amity, and AWS Consulting Partners, such as National Telecom (NT), True IDC, G-Able, Dailitech, Deloitte, and Accenture, are among them.
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AWS will engage with MDES on a skilling plan and provide support to teach more than 1,200 personnel with cloud skills to help the Thai government accelerate innovation. All learners, from secondary school and higher education students to working adults, can benefit from AWS Training and Certification programs, which provide free online training courses to assist them master cloud computing skills and keeping up with technological changes.
The Thai government will be able to use AWS's world-class infrastructure, which spans 26 geographic areas and 84 Availability Zones (AZs) around the world, according to the MOU. Infrastructure offers more than 200 fully featured services for computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual, and augmented reality (VR and AR), media and application development, deployment, and management to customers.
Eric Conrad, Managing Director, Worldwide Public Sector, ASEAN, AWS, said that they are honored to share that AWS has signed an MOU with MDES to assist with the digital transformation of the Thai Government Cloud, the central cloud infrastructure for government agencies. MDES and the Thai government will be able to take advantage of over 200 fully-featured AWS Cloud services, including AWS' industry-leading security capabilities and world-class global infrastructure, to promote innovation and cost savings in delivering improved citizen services.
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