Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, plans to build a new data centre to be located in Australia.
The data centre instance, which will be built on AWS, will be Datadog’s first in Australia and adds to existing locations in North America, Asia, Europe and AWS GovCloud.
The Australian data centre will store and process data locally, creating sovereign capacity to help Datadog’s customers meet local privacy and security requirements and preferences.
Datadog currently works with more than 1,000 organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
These include companies in the banking and financial services, retail and ecommerce, software-as-a-service and technology industries, with public sector, healthcare and higher education representing key expansion verticals.
“Australia is a high-priority market for Datadog; we already have a strong employee base in-region and aim to create new jobs across various practices this year,” said Rob Thorne, VP for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) at Datadog.
Thorne said Datadog has experienced surging demand in Australia and New Zealand.
“We continue to invest in Australia and New Zealand, with the recent opening of our Melbourne office and the expansion of our teams there, as well as in Sydney and Auckland,” said Yanbing Li, chief product officer at Datadog.
Li said Australian companies are innovating rapidly and rely on Datadog to support their continued cloud investments, digital transformations and AI projects.
“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,” said Li.
