Alibaba’s first Thailand data centre goes live
Move comes amid cloud market boom
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing service arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has launched its first data centre in Thailand to capitalise on the country’s cloud market and support the nation’s 20-year strategic plan.
Alibaba Cloud (Thailand) has registered capital of 1.06 billion baht, according to the Business Development Department.
“Thailand is one of the strategic countries to provide our cloud services,” Tyler Qiu, Thailand country manager for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said via a virtual news conference.
Bangkok is one of 27 Alibaba Cloud Regions — a geographic area where the company’s data centres are deployed. The data centre in Bangkok went live last month.
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