Announcing new Google Cloud regions in Asia Pacific

Digital instruments supplied by cloud computing are fueling transformation around the globe, together with in Asia Pacific. Actually, IDC expects that whole spending on cloud providers in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) will attain 282 billion USD by 2025.¹ To fulfill rising demand for cloud providers in Asia Pacific, we’re excited to announce our plans to carry three new Google Cloud areas to Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand — on prime of six different areas that we beforehand introduced are coming to Berlin, Dammam, Doha, Mexico, Tel Aviv, and Turin. 

After they launch, these new areas will be part of our 34 cloud areas at present in operation around the globe — 11 of that are positioned in Asia Pacific — delivering high-performance providers working on the cleanest cloud within the trade. Enterprises throughout industries, startups, and public sector organizations throughout Asia Pacific will profit from key controls that allow them to keep up low latency and the best safety, information residency, and compliance requirements, together with particular information storage necessities.

“The brand new Google Cloud areas will assist to handle organizations’ growing wants within the space of digital sovereignty and allow extra alternatives for digital transformation and innovation in Asia Pacific. With this announcement, Google Cloud is offering clients with extra decisions in accessing capabilities from native cloud areas whereas aiding their journeys to hybrid and multi-cloud environments,” stated Daphne Chung, Analysis Director, Cloud Companies and Software program Analysis, IDC Asia/Pacific.

What clients and companions are saying

From retail and media & leisure to monetary providers and public sector, main organizations come to Google Cloud as their trusted innovation associate. The brand new Google Cloud areas in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand will assist our clients proceed to allow progress and resolve their most important enterprise issues. We’ll work with our clients to make sure the cloud area matches their evolving wants. 

“Kami was born out of the digital native period, the place so as to scale globally we would have liked a associate like Google Cloud who might help us on our ongoing innovation journey. We’ve since delivered an enticing and reliable expertise for thousands and thousands of lecturers and college students around the globe, so it’s extremely thrilling to listen to in regards to the new area coming to New Zealand. This funding from Google Cloud will allow us to ship providers with decrease latency to our Kiwi customers, which can additional elevate and optimize our free premium providing to all New Zealand colleges.” – Jordan Thoms, Chief Expertise Officer, Kami 

“Our clients are on the coronary heart of our enterprise, and serving to Kiwis discover what they’re on the lookout for, quicker than ever earlier than, is our key precedence. Our collaboration with Google Cloud has been pivotal in making certain the soundness and resilience of our infrastructure, permitting us to ship world-class experiences to the 650,000 Kiwis that go to our web site on daily basis. We welcome Google Cloud’s funding in New Zealand, and are wanting ahead to extra alternatives to associate intently on our expertise transformation journey.” – Anders Skoe, CEO, Commerce Me 

“Digital transformation performs a key position in serving to Vodafone ship higher buyer experiences and join all Kiwis. We welcome Google Cloud’s funding in New Zealand and stay up for working collectively to supply extra enriched experiences for native companies, and the communities we serve,” stated Jason Paris, CEO, Vodafone New Zealand

“Our journey with Google Cloud spans nearly half a decade, with our most up-to-date partnership and co-innovation initiatives paving the way in which for AirAsia and Capital A to disrupt the digital platform area in the identical vein as we did airways. The announcement of a brand new cloud area that’s coming to Malaysia – and Thailand too if I could add – showcases Google Cloud’s steady want to develop its in-region capabilities to enhance and help our aspiration of building the airasia Tremendous App on the heart of our e-commerce, logistics and fintech ecosystem, whereas enriching the area people and giving all 700 million individuals in Asean inclusivity, accessibility, and worth. I couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about this huge milestone and the brand new prospects that Google Cloud’s rising community of cloud areas will create for us, our friends, and the frequent man.” – Tony Fernandes, CEO, Capital A

“Google Cloud’s world-class cloud-based analytics and synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments have enabled Media Prima to embed a digital DNA throughout our group, ship trusted and real-time information updates throughout peak intervals when individuals want them probably the most, and implement complete new engagement fashions like content material commerce, thereby permitting us to diversify our income streams and stay on the forefront of an trade in transition. By permitting us to position our digital infrastructure and purposes even nearer to our audiences, this cloud area will supercharge data-driven content material manufacturing and distribution, and our potential to complement the lives of Malaysians by informing, entertaining, and fascinating them by means of new and progressive mediums.” – Rafiq Razali, Group Managing Director, Media Prima

“Google Cloud’s world community has been taking part in an integral position in Krungthai Financial institution’s adoption of superior information analytics, cybersecurity, AI, and open banking capabilities to earn and retain the belief of the 40 million Thais who use our digital providers to fulfill their day by day financing wants. This new cloud area is a basically essential milestone that can assist speed up our steady digital reinvention and sustainable progress technique inside the native regulatory framework, thereby permitting us to achieve and serve Thais in any respect ranges, together with unbanked shoppers and small enterprise homeowners, regardless of the place they might be.” – Payong Srivanich, CEO, Krungthai Financial institution

“Having migrated our operations and purposes onto Google Cloud’s superior information cloud infrastructure, we’re already delivering extra customized providers and experiences to small enterprise homeowners, supply riders, and shoppers than ever earlier than – and in a extra value environment friendly and sustainable manner. With the brand new cloud area, we can be bodily nearer to the computing sources that Google Cloud has to supply, and capable of entry cloud applied sciences in a quicker and much more full manner. This may assist strengthen our mission: to construct a homegrown ‘tremendous app’ that assists smaller gamers and revitalizes the grassroots economic system.” – Thana Thienachariya, Chairman of the Board, Purple Ventures Co., Ltd. (Robinhood)

Delivering a world community

These new cloud areas symbolize our ongoing dedication to supporting digital transformation throughout Asia Pacific. We proceed to spend money on increasing connectivity all through the area by working with companions within the telecommunications trade to ascertain subsea cables — together with Apricot, Echo, JGA South, INDIGO, and Topaz — and factors of presence in main cities. 

Be taught extra about our world cloud infrastructure, together with new and upcoming areas.

^{1. Supply: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Complete Cloud Forecast, 2020—2025, Doc # AP47756122, February 2022}