Datadog to launch first Aussie data centre instance

Datadog is set to launch its first data centre instance in Australia later this year, storing and processing data locally.

The instance, which will cover all existing Datadog products and be built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), will create sovereign capacity to help customers meet local privacy and security requirements and preferences.

Datadog vice president for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) Rob Thorne said Australia is a high priority market for the vendor, with both a strong employee base in-region and “surging” demand in both Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ).

He cited Gartner research from September last year indicating that Australian IT spend will reach $147 billion in 2025, with cyber security, generative AI and cloud services “to receive significant attention”.

“We are poised to support this appetite for advanced digital capabilities across the private sector, alongside the Australian government’s ambitions to become a top three digital government,” Thorne said.

Datadog chief product officer Yanbing Li added that the platform vendor is continuing to invest in the region with it recently opening a Melbourne office and expanding its teams there as well as Sydney and Auckland.

 “Australian companies are innovating rapidly and rely on Datadog to support their continued cloud investments, digital transformations and AI projects,” she said. “For businesses in highly regulated industries like healthcare and financial services, hosting data locally is critical—a need we’re addressing with this new data centre [instance].”

The instance adds to Datadog’s existing locations in North America, Asia, Europe and AWS GovCloud.

Last year, Datadog told ARN it was set on bringing in new A/NZ partners into its ecosystem, with the vendor’s channel and alliances director for Asia Pacific Eric Gaines saying the cloud application monitoring vendor was facing a point in its growth strategy where partner recruitment is a top priority.