Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) Inc.’s plans to locate a data center in Australia were announced last week (April 2nd, 2025). Datadog provides monitoring and security platform for cloud applications and all existing Datadog products will be available from the new data center.
The data center will be built on AWS, and will be Datadog’s first in Austalia. The company already operates from locations in North America, Asia, Europe and AWS GovCloud. It will store and process data locally, thus creating sovereign capacity to help Datadog’s customers meet local privacy and security requirements and preferences.
According to Rob Thorne, Vice President Asia Pacific and Japan at Datadog “Australia is a high priority market for Datadog” in which, together with New Zealand, the company is experiencing “surging demand”, He points to forecasts from Gartner of AU$147 billion for IT spend this year as a basis for strong activity as well as to the Australian government’s stated ambition to become a top-three digital government.
Thorne predicted Datadog is “poised to support this appetite for advanced digital capabilities across the private sector” as well as pushing into government-dominated and highly-regulated sectors such as healthcare and higher education. Currently, the company works with more than 1,000 organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
The company currently employs around 100 people in Australia and New Zealand and has recently opened an office in Melbourne and expanded its workforce there as well as in Sydney and Auckland,
The data center is expected to open in the middle of this year.