Oracle invests billions in Malaysia: New cloud boom in Southeast Asia

Oracle announced an investment of over $6.5 billion to establish its first public cloud region in Malaysia. This is the latest significant commitment by a global technology corporation to the Southeast Asian country. Since last year, prominent technology companies such as Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, and ByteDance have announced multi-billion dollar investments in Malaysia’s digital infrastructure, primarily in cloud services and data centers. A cloud region is the physical, geographical location where a company's public cloud facilities are situated. Oracle's project will be one of the largest single investments in the technology sector and will surpass the $6.2 billion initiative by Amazon’s cloud unit AWS from last year. The planned public cloud region is intended to assist organizations in Malaysia in modernizing their applications, migrating workloads to the cloud, and driving innovation with data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). According to Oracle, this will enable Malaysian customers to utilize cloud services locally – a significant improvement for government agencies, financial institutions, as well as airlines and hospitality companies. “Our customers expect Oracle to support them in innovating, standardizing processes, implementing faster, and being cost-efficient,” explained Garret Ilg, Executive Vice President of Oracle for Japan and Asia-Pacific, in an interview with Reuters. The cloud region in Malaysia will be Oracle’s third in Southeast Asia, following the existing facilities in Singapore. Globally, Oracle currently operates 50 public cloud regions in 24 countries. Last month, Oracle had raised its revenue forecast for the fiscal year 2026 and expects to surpass the $100 billion mark in fiscal year 2029 – evidence of the increasing demand for its cloud services. In Asia, Oracle plans further expansion, with additional data centers and infrastructure projects from Japan to New Zealand and India. Chris Chelliah, Senior Vice President for Technology and Customer Strategy at Oracle Japan and Asia-Pacific, emphasized that Malaysia offers further growth potential and market opportunities as part of a broader development strategy for artificial intelligence and data centers in Southeast Asia. In the past twelve months, Microsoft has announced $1.7 billion in cloud service investments in Indonesia. Amazon plans to invest $9 billion in Singapore and $5 billion in Thailand. On Tuesday, Google began the construction of a $2 billion data center in Malaysia, which is expected to contribute over $3 billion to the country’s economy by 2030.