Google Cloud opens data centers in Malaysia/Thailand/New Zealand

Google just announced the opening of its Mexico data center for its cloud computing service earlier, and it didn’t take long for a new data center in the Asia-Pacific region to open. The newly opened data centers are located in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand, and Google wants to compete more aggressively with Amazon and Microsoft in the Asia-Pacific market.

Market research firms predict that by 2025, total spending on cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) will reach $282 billion, a fast-growing market. It is worth noting that in terms of IT and services spending in the Asia-Pacific region, cloud services accounted for 84%, the highest proportion of all other regional markets.

“The new Google Cloud regions will help to address organizations’ increasing needs in the area of digital sovereignty and enable more opportunities for digital transformation and innovation in Asia Pacific. With this announcement, Google Cloud is providing customers with more choices in accessing capabilities from local cloud regions while aiding their journeys to hybrid and multi-cloud environments,” said Daphne Chung, Research Director, Cloud Services and Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific.

It is worth noting that Amazon also recently announced that it will build more new data centers in Auckland, Manila, Bangkok, and other regions of the Asia-Pacific market. This wave of operations by Google is obviously ahead of Amazon. After all, Google Cloud is still far behind Amazon and Microsoft, and it does require more effort.

In addition, Google Cloud has several new data centers opening soon, with Doha, Turin, Berlin, Dammam, and Tel Aviv data centers soon to be put into use. In terms of data centers, AWS currently has 26 cloud regions around the world, Microsoft Azure has more than 60 cloud regions, and Google now has 34 cloud regions.