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AWS Announces Sta'O'Nuk: Its First Private Transpacific Subsea Cable Connecting US and Japan
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Fusion42 · 4 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
AWS announced Sta'O'Nuk, its first privately owned transpacific subsea cable connecting the US and Japan with 420 Tbps capacity, expected operational in 2029. It lands in a new Washington state location, improving route diversity and supporting latency-sensitive applications like distributed AI training.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure, and 2 sources have reported it between 3 Sep 2026 and 4 Sep 2026.
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AWS now controls a critical transpacific cable path bypassing traditional chokepoints, letting you offer low-latency cloud services across the Pacific. You must rethink network dependency and target enterprise users needing resilient AI training infrastructure tied to AWS.
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2 sources · first reported 3 Sep 2026 · latest 4 Sep 2026
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