DigitalOcean, an American cloud infrastructure provider, startups and SMBs, has announced it is expanding its global presence with a new data center in Sydney, Australia (SYD1) in order to better serve its current and potential clients that are situated in or have end-users in Australia and New Zealand.
Sydney is the ninth global region to house a DigitalOcean data center and the fifteenth facility overall. And with the most recent network design and a connection to the private internet edge and backbone network of DigitalOcean, the SYD1 data center offers 400 Gbps of on-net access to Asia, North America, and Europe.
This lessens reliance on the public web, which helps customers deal with jitter, latency, and packet loss. All equipment features redundant network and power connections, ensuring a dependable and secure experience. These connections can intelligently divert data in the event of unforeseen outages.
By 2025, the Australian cloud computing market is projected to increase by 12.5%, with SMBs likely to spend more on the cloud than large corporations. Sydney was a great choice for the new DigitalOcean data center due to Sydney’s robust and expanding technological company scene, Australia’s strong and expanding telecommunications connectivity choices, including subsea communications cables directly linking to the United States and Asia.
According to Yancey Spruill, DigitalOcean CEO, they are thrilled to broaden the scope and capability of their infrastructure to better serve small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers in Australia, New Zealand, and the surrounding area.
Hundreds of thousands of current customers currently use their worldwide network. Thus, this cutting-edge data center will offer startup companies and SMBs in these significant, quickly expanding markets low-latency connection as well as their IaaS and PaaS productivity tools.
For Gabe Monroy, Chief Product Officer at DigitalOcean, with their small business customers’ needs in mind, this new data center was constructed. Scalability, availability, and security have been important concerns for their clients, and these features were baked into this build to guarantee that end users always enjoy a wonderful and secure experience.
The Sydney facility will boost end users’ overall experiences while using apps hosted on the DigitalOcean platform and offer direct market connectivity. SMBs and startups who use multiple cloud providers will find it easy to implement a multi-cloud strategy thanks to SYD1’s seamless peering with hyperscalers.
As of right now, users can use any DigitalOcean service from the SYD1 region, including droplet deployment, DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster creation, managed database provisioning, and more.