Malaysia is home to one of the fastest growing data center ecosystems in Southeast Asia. In 2018, the country’s data center market experienced a 15% growth. The industry is valued at $229.5 million and is projected to have double-digit growth over the next 36 months. Hyperscale service providers are steadily moving their operations to the country, with Chinese tech giant Alibaba Cloud establishing infrastructure in 2017. What does this mean for your business?
Long-Term Growth & Lowered Costs
Running a data center in Malaysia is less costly than in competing countries. Malaysia has more land, resources, and human capital than nearby Singapore (which has been the leading tech hotspot in SE Asia for the past decade). However, Singapore’s growth has caused it to become saturated with providers and more importantly, expensive.
Malaysia’s combination of low cost energy tariffs, world-class hosting infrastructure, and a growing tech economy equals lowered hosting and cloud computing costs (on a per kilowatt basis) for both local and cross-border businesses.
Scalability
Increased connectivity and lowered infrastructure costs have poised Malaysia to become one of the top nations in SE Asia for web hosting and cloud computing services. The market has been steadily growing each year. Small businesses, SME’s, and enterprise-level corporations can all benefit from the cost-effective and scalable hosting infrastructure found in Malaysia.
Malaysian Hosting Infrastructure
Malaysia has over 45 colocation data centers and 68 cloud service providers (including Alibaba Cloud).
The country has been rapidly increasing its number of submarine cables and network fabrics: 18 international submarine cable landings, nine cable landing stations, and two network fabrics. This puts Malaysia among the top four in submarine cables across all of Asia (surpassing Japan, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, and China).
With Malaysia cementing its position as a leader in the SE Asian hosting industry, the country has become a very important location to major multinational businesses based in the region as well as across the world. We’ve created the list posted below to help you find the perfect Malaysian hosting company, with a detailed overview of services, costs, and features.
