Oracle to invest over US$6.5 billion to set up public cloud region in Malaysia

In a bid to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence and cloud services in Malaysia, Oracle announced plans to invest more than US$6.5 billion to open a public cloud region.

“The public cloud region will help organizations in Malaysia modernize their applications, migrate all types of workloads to the cloud, and innovate with data, analytics, and AI.

“Customers can have access to OCI Generative AI Agents with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities; accelerated computing and generative AI services to help keep sovereign AI models within country borders; and OCI Supercluster, the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud—orderable with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs for RoCEv2 networking or NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack solutions using liquid cooling and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.

“In addition, 150+ services, including Oracle Autonomous Database, HeatWave MySQL Database Service, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, OCI Kubernetes Engine, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite will also be available, offering customers infrastructure, platform, or SaaS services,” Oracle said in a statement yesterday.

Minister of investment, trade and industry Senator Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz remarked that Oracle’s entry into Malaysia is in line Malaysia’s New Industrial Master Plan that intends to create 3000 smart factories in the next six years.