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Oct 29, 2025 12:00 PM

Amazon Web Services To Invest At Least $5 Billion In South Korea's AI Sector By 2031

Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) cloud computing unit has committed to investing a minimum of $5 billion in South Korea by 2031 to establish new artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.

AWS Investment To Boost Billions In US GDP

Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced the move at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2025 summit on Wednesday, according to Reuters, citing the South Korean presidential office. The new data centers will be located on the outskirts of Seoul.

Garman also revealed AWS’s broader investment plans, stating, “At AWS, we’ve invested and committed to investment of an additional $40 billion across 14 non-U.S. APEC countries and economies between now and 2028.” He also stated that the move is expected to generate an additional $45 billion in U.S. GDP and create broader downstream gains for the APEC region.

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