Datadog to open first Australian data centre by mid-2025

Datadog has announced plans to establish its first data centre in Australia, highlighting the company's response to local privacy and security demands.

The planned instance will utilise AWS infrastructure to offer data sovereignty, enabling Datadog's more than 1,000 customers in Australia and New Zealand to adhere to regional data compliance standards.

This development reflects Australia's growing significance in Datadog's market strategy, with the data centre expected to be operational by the middle of 2025.

Companies spanning from banking and financial services to retail, ecommerce, technology, and more, comprise Datadog's customer base in the region. Public sector entities, along with healthcare and higher education organisations, are identified as key areas of potential growth for the company.

Grant Currey, Chief Technology Officer, Corporate ANZ at Flight Centre Travel Group, expressed his satisfaction with Datadog's services: "As the ANZ Chief Technology Officer at Flight Centre Corporate, I am watching Datadog unite our entire technology ecosystem into a single pane of glass - transforming us from reactive to proactive and elevating outcomes for every level of the business."

Lisa Tobin, Group Executive, Technology at SEEK, commented on the benefits of Datadog's technology: "With Datadog's end-to-end observability, we can detect and address service quality across multiple business units. Ensuring we are proactively resolving issues before they become business critical for us."

Rob Thorne, Vice President for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Datadog, reinforced the company's commitment to the region.

"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," he said. "Datadog has experienced surging demand in Australia and New Zealand. Analysts forecast IT spend will reach AUD $147 billion this year, with cybersecurity, generative AI and cloud services to receive significant attention."

"We are poised to support this appetite for advanced digital capabilities across the private sector, alongside the Australian Government's ambitions to become a top three digital government."

Additionally, Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, spoke on the broader impacts of Datadog's investment in the region.

"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," 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."

The full suite of existing Datadog products will be available with the new instance, aimed at supporting the diverse needs of its client base across multiple sectors.