Singapore’s UOB signs up for VMware Cloud on AWS

Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) has become the first organisation in Southeast Asia to sign up for VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of efforts to speed up the time it takes to deploy and develop applications in a hybrid cloud environment. Announced in 2017, VMware on AWS allows enterprises running VMware’s vSphere-based software stack to harness AWS’s bare metal infrastructure to power their applications, expand their datacentre footprint and facilitate disaster recovery. The service was first available in the Asia-Pacific region in Sydney and Tokyo in the later part of 2018, followed by Singapore, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Osaka and Seoul throughout 2019. In UOB’s case, VMware said it jointly engineered the service with AWS in compliance with UOB’s security requirements, allowing the bank to deploy applications with robust disaster protection and optimised access to other AWS services. Adhunik Chug, head of group shared infrastructure services at UOB, said to improve the banking experience for customers, it is important for UOB to have the capability to be agile without compromising security.