Oracle has launched its second cloud region in Singapore. The company says that the second Oracle Cloud Region has been opened to help meet the "rapidly growing demand for AI (artificial intelligence) and cloud service。
The cloud region will deliver AI and more than 100 cloud services to Singaporean companies and organizations。
The new region has FastConnect partners including Console Connect, Digital Realty, Equinix, and Megaport.
Plans for a second cloud region were first announced in April 2023. The company opened its first cloud region in Singapore in November 2021, which has supported more than 1,000 customers in Southeast Asia since launching, including Pacific International Lines and Siam Makro。
Oracle has a policy of running two facilities in each country for redundancy purposes. Among Oracle's rivals, Google’s first data center in Singapore went live in late 2013, after breaking ground in 2011. Ground was broken on a second facility in 2015, which came online around 2017. Google opened its Singapore GCP cloud region in 2017 which was the company’s first in Southeast Asia. A third data center went live in August 2022, and another expansion of its cloud region was completed in June 2024.
AWS launched its Singapore cloud region in 2010. The company added a third availability zone there in 2018. In May 2024, the company committed to spending $9bn on cloud computing infrastructure in the city-state。
Microsoft opened a three-availability zone Azure cloud region in Singapore in 2010. In February 2022 the company announced plans for a new sovereign cloud in Singapore in partnership with the state’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency
Singapore is looking at introducing a variety of regulations that will impact the cloud sector, including a Digital Infrastructure Act which will require relevant entities to report significant outages and cyber incident
In December 2023 the government was considering labeling data centers and clouds as "critical infrastructure."
