Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) on Thursday ( June 26 ) opened its first innovation hub in Asia-Pacific ( APAC ) in downtown Singapore.

The 8,000-square-foot facility offers an immersive experience for CEOs and business leaders in the region to interact with AWS and Amazon-wide technologies, and over 30 partner solutions across 50 real-world customer use cases for cloud technology.

The experience culminates in AWS customers receiving a practical roadmap for accelerating their digital transformation, designed by Vision Builder, a proprietary AWS solution powered by Amazon Nova.

The AWS Innovation Hub aims to fast-track digital and artificial intelligence ( AI ) transformation and innovation for public and private sector organizations across Asia-Pacific. The multi-million-dollar facility is an additional investment on top of AWS’s commitment to invest US$9 billion into cloud infrastructure in Singapore by 2028.

Each year, AWS plans to engage over 1,000 C-Suite leaders and business decision makers at the hub on cloud and Gen AI technology-led innovation, and will provide 200 students from Singapore’s tertiary education institutions an exclusive learning experience at the facility.

The virtual and physical demos of existing and new technology solutions are co-built with AWS partners and customers to address top business challenges and can already be adopted by companies in the region.

"Technological innovation is critical to the growth of Asia, and we need innovation to transform customer experiences while also delivering real business value," says Jaime Vallés, vice president, AWS Asia-Pacific and Japan.

"The AWS Innovation Hub empowers our customers to convert big ideas into real business outcomes by combining our comprehensive cloud and AI technology, proven expertise from our network of over 140,000 partners worldwide, and Amazon’s unique culture of innovation."

AI Springboard

Meanwhile, AWS and Digital Industry Singapore ( DISG ) launched the AI Springboard, with the aim of empowering 300 Singapore-based enterprises to scale artificial intelligence across their operations over the next 12 months.

The AI Springboard offers enterprises up to S$600,000 ( US$471,250 ) in cloud credits and training support to fast-track their AI transformation journeys. This initiative extends AWS’s efforts to support AI adoption in Singapore, building on AWS AI Spring, an initiative launched in 2024 to build AI fluency across Singapore's public sector, workforce, enterprises, start-ups, communities, and research institutions.

The AI Springboard is a key programme under the Singapore Government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative ( ECI ) that was unveiled during Singapore’s 2025 budget statement. Under the ECI, up to S$150 million will be set aside to help Singapore-based enterprises leverage AI more effectively in their transformation journey.