- New regions in France and Malaysia come online as Tokyo and Mexico capacity is expanded under a broader AI infrastructure push
- Company also rolls out agentic AI tools across overseas markets alongside enterprise partnerships
Alibaba Cloud opened new data center regions in Paris and Johor on the sidelines of VivaTech in France, while expanding existing infrastructure in Tokyo and Mexico, as it scales capacity to meet rising AI-driven token demand and overseas workloads.
The expansion brings Alibaba Cloud’s global footprint to 32 regions and 105 availability zones.
The Paris region becomes its third European hub after Germany and the UK, with two availability zones designed to comply with EU data privacy and sovereignty requirements.
In Southeast Asia, the Johor launch raises Alibaba Cloud’s Malaysia footprint to five data centers, making it its largest infrastructure base in the region.
Tokyo has added a fifth data center, while Mexico has also gone live with a second availability zone.
The buildout forms part of Alibaba’s previously announced $53 billion investment plan in AI and cloud infrastructure.
Agentic AI stack
Alongside infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud said it will roll out a suite of agentic AI products in Europe and Malaysia in the second half of the year, including AgentRun for building AI agents, STAROps for intelligent operations, and Agentic SOC for enterprise security operations.
DataWorks Data Agent and an AI-native database service have already been launched in Japan, Malaysia and Europe for data engineering and database management use cases.
The company is also deepening overseas partnerships.
Deepening collaboration
In digital finance, Malaysia’s TNG Digital is using Alibaba Cloud to enhance search and recommendation capabilities, while YTL Group’s YTL AI Labs has co-developed a Malay-language large model family, ILMU.
Alibaba Cloud CTO and President of International Business Feifei Li said the company aims to bring a full-stack AI and cloud ecosystem to global customers, helping enterprises shift from traditional automation to agent-driven operations.
According to Gartner, Alibaba Cloud is the largest cloud provider in China and the leading player in Asia-Pacific.
