AWS’s Asia chief is relocating to Japan as the country scrambles to modernize its legacy IT systems

AWS’s Asia chief is relocating to Japan as the country scrambles to modernize its legacy IT systems

Amazon Web Services’ top Asia executive is moving to Tokyo, as the global cloud computing provider bets that Japan’s potential for AI adoption makes it a far more interesting market than its sluggish headline GDP growth suggests. “Japan is in a moment of change,” Jaime Vallés, AWS’s managing director of Asia-Pacific, Japan and China, tells Fortune at the firm’s Singapore office. “AI, security and competition are three strong reasons for Japanese…