Oracle is setting up a public cloud region in Malaysia to help expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) coverage in the region. It will be joining existing facilities in Australia, India, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea to become the 12th Oracle Cloud region in Asia Pacific.
A landmark investment by Oracle in Malaysia
The American tech giant said that the establishment of the new public cloud region in Malaysia will involve an investment of more than USD6.5 billion (~RM27 billion). However, Oracle did not reveal the location of the data centre and its deployment timeline.
Oracle said the new OCI facility in Malaysia can provide more than 150 cloud services to customers. Among them include Oracle Cloud VMware, OCI Generative AI Agents, OCI Kubernetes Engine, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Omniverse, NVIDIA DGX Cloud, and many more.
In addition to that, customers can also access OCI Supercluster which the company claims as the world’s largest AI supercomputer in the cloud. This includes the ability to order up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPU which has AI compute power of up to 2.4 ZettaFLOPS.
The new facility offers low-latency access and data sovereignty advantage
For local organisations or multi-national companies that operate in Malaysia, among the biggest benefits of having an Oracle Cloud region in Malaysia is low-latency access to cloud services. Furthermore, it can also help them meet specific regulations and legal requirements especially when it comes to data residency.
Oracle’s announcement today is the latest in a string of multi-billion ringgit investments by tech companies to establish data centre infrastructure in Malaysia. Just yesterday, Google hosted the official groundbreaking ceremony for its USD2 billion (~RM8.32 billion) data centre in Elmina, Sungai Buloh.
In addition to that, Amazon and Microsoft have also committed to deploying AI and cloud infrastructure in Malaysia through investments worth USD6.2 billion (~RM25.79 billion) and USD2.2 billion (~RM9.15 billion), respectively. YTL and NVIDIA have also partnered to establish AI infrastructure through a deal that is said to be worth USD4.3 billion (~RM17.88 billion).
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