Datadog adds local availability through AWS Sydney Region

Datadog has made available the full range of its products and services on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. 

The newly added local availability zone enables Datadog, its customers and partners to store and process data locally, enabling faster observability and in-region capacity to meet applicable Australian privacy, security and data storage requirements.  

This is important for an increasing number of organisations operating in regulated environments such as government, banking, healthcare, and higher education. 

Datadog chief product officer Yanbing Li said this supports milestone supports the Australian Government’s “ambition to make the country a leading digital economy. 

This sentiment was echoed by the vendor’s vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) Rob Thorne. 

“Australian organisations are on track to spend nearly $26.6 billion on public cloud services alone in 2025,” he said. “For organisations in highly regulated industries, it isn’t just the cloud provider that needs to have local data storage capacity, it should be all layers of the tech stack.”  

Thorne said this milestone reflects Datadog’s priority to support these investments.  

“It’s the latest step in our expansion down under and follows the continued addition of headcount to support our more than 1,100 A/NZ customers,” he said.  

This includes the recent appointments of field CTO for APJ, Yadi Narayana, and vice president of commercial sales for APJ, Adrian Towsey, to its leadership team, noted Thorne. 

The launch adds to existing locations in North America, Asia, and Europe of the vendor’s observability platform.