Tencent and Alibaba expand APAC cloud infrastructure
Tencent Cloud plans to establish its first cloud region in Malaysia, while Alibaba Cloud has launched a third data centre in South Korea, adding capacity in two Asian markets as global cloud infrastructure spending continues to rise.
Both announcements were made on August 18. Tencent’s planned Malaysia region will comprise up to three availability zones in Johor.
Alibaba adds capacity in South Korea
Alibaba’s latest South Korean facility adds capacity to an existing local presence. The company entered the market in 2016 and opened its first data centre there in 2022, while the third facility comes little more than a year after its second data centre was added.
Alibaba has not disclosed the specific physical locations of its South Korean data centres. The latest facility will provide compute, storage, networking, security, and database services, alongside infrastructure and services for AI workloads.
Yongjoon Yoon, country manager of South Korea at Alibaba...
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