Heaptalk, Jakarta — Oracle, a cloud company headquartered in Austin, Texas, plans to invest more than US$6.5 billion to establish a public cloud region in Malaysia. Establishing this cloud region aims to enable customers and partners in the country to leverage AI infrastructure and services.
In more detail, the public cloud region is expected to assist organizations in Malaysia in modernizing their applications, migrating all types of workloads to the cloud, and innovating with data, analytics, and AI. This stride has also been taken to meet the country’s rapidly growing demand for AI and cloud services.
Furthermore, customers can access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI Agents with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, computing and generative AI services to help keep sovereign AI models within country borders, and the OCI Supercluster. In addition, over 150 services, including Oracle Autonomous Database, HeatWave MySQL Database Service, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, will also be available, offering customers infrastructure, platform, or SaaS services.
Empowering Malaysian SMEs
“We warmly welcome Oracle’s US$6.5 billion investment in Malaysia, which represents yet another expansion of their 36-year footprint in Malaysia,” said YB Senator Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, Malaysia’s Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI).
The Minister is optimistic that Oracle’s investment will empower Malaysian entities, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, with innovative and cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies to enhance global competitiveness. This investment is also a significant step towards embodying the country’s New Industrial Master Plan’s ambitious vision of creating 3,000 smart factories by 2030. Oracle’s decision to establish a public cloud region in Malaysia underscores Malaysia’s infrastructure readiness and growing position as a premier Southeast Asian destination for digital investments.
According to Garrett Ilg, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle, Malaysia offers unique growth opportunities for organizations looking to expand with the latest digital technologies. “Our multi-billion-dollar investment affirms our commitment to Malaysia as a regional gateway for cloud infrastructure as well as a comprehensive suite of SaaS applications deployed within Malaysia,” Ilg concluded.