Alibaba Cloud said on Aug. 18 it has officially opened its third data centre in South Korea, targeting the AI market.

Alibaba Cloud has provided cloud and digital transformation services to corporate customers and partners in South Korea since entering the market in 2016. Following its first data centre in 2022 and second in 2025, it opened the third to underscore its commitment to continued long-term investment, viewing South Korea as a major AI and digital market in Asia.

Through the new data centre, Alibaba Cloud plans to strengthen its local infrastructure base and support South Korean companies in stable operations of AI and cloud-based services. The new facility offers a range of enterprise cloud computing services including computing, storage, networking, security, databases, containers and cloud-native services.

Alibaba Cloud also plans to expand agent-based AI services in South Korea in line with growing demand for enterprise AI agents. The planned offerings include AgentRun, STAROps, ACS Agent Sandbox, Agent Security Center, AI Security Guardrails 2.0 and an agentic SOC. The company said the services support efficient management across the full process, from developing and testing AI agents to deployment, operations and security management.

Yoon Yong-jun (윤용준), head of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence in South Korea, said the country is a key market where Alibaba Cloud has continued long-term investment. He said the third data centre is an investment aimed at supporting local companies in more stable operations of AI and cloud-based services, beyond a simple infrastructure expansion. He said Alibaba Cloud will continue to support the digital transformation of South Korean companies based on stable, highly scalable cloud infrastructure and AI services.