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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS opened the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in March 2011, and expanded the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to a full Region in 2021 to give our customers in Japan even lower latency, and the ability to architect workloads for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability.

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Japan: Science and technology policy

Open Access Government - Technology News

1) An earlier version of Open Access Government reported that in 2020, the Basic Law was amended for the first time in 25 years and changed its name to the Science, Technology, and Innovation Basic Law. The 6th Basic Plan, which covers the fiscal years 2021 to 2025, was the first developed after the amendment. (2)

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Continuing the pace of government innovation with the cloud in Asia Pacific and Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

Enabled by cloud technology, digitized government agencies became better equipped to offer citizen and healthcare services, which helped improve and even save lives. Governments across APJ are taking bold steps to accelerate and simplify the process for public sector agencies to migrate to the cloud and leverage its benefits.

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Accelerating digital transformation to revitalize local economy and improve lives in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

A 2021 white paper on information and communications by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications highlighted the gap between urban and local digital transformation initiatives in Japan, with urban areas making more progress and local areas lagging behind. Supporting digital transformation across Japan.