Alibaba Cloud, China's biggest cloud provider, to shut down Australia, India data centres as it prioritises other markets.
Alibaba Cloud, mainland China's biggest cloud provider, is to shut down its data centres in Australia and India as it prioritises expansion in other markets.
Service in India is to be suspended after 15 July and in Australia after 30 September.
Customers in those regions have been notified to move their business to data centres in Singapore and other regions.
Alibaba launched its Sydney cloud region in 2016 and the Mumbai region in2018.
The company currently offers 89 availability zones in 30 worldwide regions.
In May it announced plans for a Mexico region and said it would establish data centres in new markets including Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and South Korea over the next three years.
Alibaba is looking to attract more cloud customers in major markets amidst geopolitical tensions that have cut off its supply of advanced chips used to power artificial intelligence models.
In March the group similarly cancelled plans to spin off its logistics unit, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, and to list the unit on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Both projects were part of a plan announced in March 2023 to break up Alibaba Group into multiple independent entities in a major restructure.
The plan followed years of regulatory uncertainty that had seen co-founder Jack Ma keeping a low profile and spending much of his time outside of China.
The restructure was announced just after Ma's return to the country after a year's absence.
This Cyber News was published on www.silicon.co.uk. Publication date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 08:13:07 +0000