● New Johor region strengthens AI-ready cloud capabilities, enhancing resilience, performance, and digital transformation across Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9 June, 2026 – Alibaba Cloud, a leading global provider of AI infrastructure and the intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced the launch of a new public cloud region in Johor, Malaysia, with two new data centres established to meet the country's growing demand for cloud and AI services.
As part of Alibaba’s previously announced US$53 billion investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in 2025, this expansion brings Alibaba Cloud's global infrastructure to 104 availability zones across 32 regions, providing a secure, scalable, robust, cloud and AI infrastructure to support customers worldwide in their digital innovation journeys.
The new facilities in Johor offer a comprehensive suite of cloud computing products—from compute, storage, container, networking, big data, security, and databases to cloud-native services. To meet the growing demand for enterprise agents in the region, Alibaba Cloud also plans to introduce a suite of agentic AI services to Malaysia in the second half of this year. These products include AgentRun, a one-stop intelligent agent development and build platform, STAROps, a comprehensive intelligent operations platform; ACS Agent Sandbox, which provides hardware-level security isolation while reducing operational costs of AI agents; Agent Security Center, an integrated defense platform for AI agents; AI Security Guardrails 2.0, an upgraded security solution with end-to-end risk detection capabilities;; as well as Agentic SOC, an enterprise-grade, AI agent-driven security operations platform. The new products are designed to streamline the building and running of enterprise-scale agents in a secure environment, providing enterprises with full cycle management of agent engineering.
Since 2017, Alibaba Cloud has been among the earliest global cloud providers to invest in Malaysia, including establishing its first twin data centre presence and adding third facility last year in the country. The launch of Johor region brings Alibaba Cloud’s total data centre footprint in Malaysia to five facilities, which marks its largest infrastructure presence in Southeast Asia so far.
“The addition of Alibaba Cloud’s new data centres in Johor further strengthens Malaysia’s position as a key destination for AI-ready infrastructure and high-value digital investments. This expansion aligns with Malaysia’s cloud-first and AI-driven national agenda, propelling us closer to realizing our vision of becoming an AI Nation by 2030 through secure, scalable, and future-ready digital infrastructure that enables both industry innovation and public sector transformation.” said YB Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Digital.
“Malaysia remains a strategic key market for us in Southeast Asia, and we are deeply committed to empowering enterprises of all sizes on their cloud and AI journey with our robust and secure cloud and AI technologies,” said Choong Hon Keat, General Manager of Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. “This expansion in Malaysia is a direct response to surging customer demand as local businesses scale cloud-native operations and integrate AI at scale. Our new data centres in Johor will enable us to deliver more resilient, low-latency services, helping companies innovate faster, scale securely, and operate with greater efficiency in the AI era.”
Choong Hon Keat, General Manager of Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence announced the launch of a new public cloud region in Johor, Malaysia
Lin En Shu, Head of Solutions Architect of Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence delivered a keynote speech during the new Johor region launch event in Malaysia
Left: Lin En Shu, Head of Solutions Architect of Malaysia, Right: Choong Hon Keat, General Manager of Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence announced the launch of a new public cloud region in Johor, Malaysia
As AI and cloud adoption accelerate, the new data centres enhance Alibaba Cloud’s ability to deliver AI-ready infrastructure to Malaysian businesses, improving resilience, reducing latency, and strengthening disaster recovery across Malaysia and Southeast Asia while supporting broader digital transformation goals.
● TNG Digital Sdn Bhd (TNGD), the operator of Malaysia’s leading digital financial services and lifestyle app, TNG eWallet, is leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s cloud technologies including a unified data platform to enhance its search and recommendation capabilities for its platform. The collaboration enables more seamless and personalised user experiences while building a scalable foundation for future innovation.
“Through our partnership with Alibaba Cloud, we are strengthening the technology foundation that enables us to deliver more intuitive and localised experiences for our users. By bringing together data and search capabilities within a unified platform, we can accelerate innovation more efficiently while simplifying operational complexity as we continue to scale our digital ecosystem.” said Leslie Lip, Chief Technology Officer, TNG Digital Sdn Bhd.
● YTL AI Labs, a technology subsidiary of the YTL Corporation, has deepened its long-running collaboration with Alibaba Cloud's AI scientists and architects, a partnership that has now produced the ILMU family of models alongside a growing product suite – Ryt AI for Ryt Bank, ILMUchat, ILMU Claw, and the ILMU API Platform for builders building their own applications. The ILMU models have demonstrated strong performance in Malay-language multitask language understanding in text, image and voice. Since September 2024, YTL AI Labs has continued to leverage on Alibaba Cloud's advanced cloud infrastructure to build and run complex AI agents for critical environments.
"Our long-term continued partnership with Alibaba Cloud has enabled us to accelerate our AI research and development, especially in advancing Malay-language AI models. By leveraging Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure and AI capabilities, we are making meaningful progress in building localised AI solutions tailored to Malaysia's digital landscape." said Foong Chee Mun, Chief Executive Officer, YTL AI Labs.
● AI-powered creative platforms Morphyx.io and TabSpace.ai are leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s video generation models including Wan2.7, and HappyHorse through Model Studio to power next-generation visual and video generation, streamline production pipelines, and significantly reduce turnaround times and costs while enabling rapid generation of high-quality, rights-cleared creative assets. In addition, Morphyx.io extends its AI capabilities through Qwen LLM for script generation, translation, and speech-related workflows, strengthening its end-to-end unified creative studio offering.
“Through our collaboration with Alibaba Cloud, we are reimagining how creative content is produced at scale. By leveraging AI-driven tools across the production workflow, we are able to significantly shorten production cycles, reduce costs, and unlock new levels of creative flexibility for brands.” said TJ Tham, Founder & CEO, Tabspace.ai.
“Working with Alibaba Cloud allows us to rapidly scale our creative AI capabilities by embedding cutting-edge models directly into our platform, helping creators move from imagination to production faster and more intelligently.” said Sham Yunus, Founder, Morphyx.io.
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