JAKARTA, Indonesia, August 3, 2026 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company®, today announced the expanded availability of Microsoft Azure connectivity in its International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This expansion strengthens Equinix's industry-leading cloud ecosystem, enabling enterprises to build distributed, low-latency, and resilient digital infrastructure to support AI innovation, modern applications, and business-critical workloads across Southeast Asia and beyond.
Indonesia continues to emerge as a powerhouse in Southeast Asia's digital economy, fueled by a mobile-first, young demographic and an accelerating demand for hybrid multi-cloud architectures. With the nation's digital economy projected to exceed US$130 billion by 2030, the local cloud computing market is scaling rapidly and is expected to reach US$5.5 billion by 2031[1]. Beyond foundational cloud adoption, the transition to the inference era of AI represents a transformative opportunity. Generative AI alone is projected to unlock US$243.5 billion in economic capacity—equivalent to approximately 18% of Indonesia’s GDP[2]. To fully realize this potential while navigating strict data sovereignty mandates, businesses require future-proof, distributed, AI infrastructure. By leveraging globally interconnected, carrier-neutral platforms equipped with advanced, sustainable cooling technologies, enterprises can seamlessly scale high-density AI workloads and integrate securely into a vibrant global digital ecosystem.
As multinational organizations across financial services, technology and digital industries continue expanding their presence in Southeast Asia, demand is growing for digital infrastructure that can support regional operations from Indonesia. Jakarta's strategic location, expanding network ecosystem and access to international subsea cable systems have strengthened its position as a leading interconnection hub, enabling organizations to connect across cloud environments, networks and business ecosystems.
With the addition of Microsoft Azure connectivity in Jakarta, Equinix further strengthens its cloud ecosystem, providing access to leading cloud service providers, including Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud. This gives enterprises the flexibility to architect secure hybrid multicloud environments, optimize application performance through private, low-latency connectivity, strengthen network resilience, and deploy AI and mission-critical workloads closer to users. It also enables organizations to maintain greater control over data and workload placement, helping them address evolving operational and regulatory requirements.
By expanding the availability of enterprise-grade cloud connectivity through its IBX in Jakarta, Equinix helps build the interconnected foundation that organizations need to participate in and contribute to Indonesia's growing digital economy.
"Indonesia is seeing strong growth in demand from both local and international organizations seeking to expand their digital operations across Southeast Asia," said Haris Izmee, Managing Director, Indonesia, Equinix. "Through Equinix in Jakarta, organizations can gain direct and private access to Microsoft Azure, helping them meet performance, data residency, and scalability requirements while accelerating their cloud and AI initiatives. Combined with access to a broad ecosystem of networks, partners, and leading cloud providers on Platform Equinix, businesses can more easily connect, innovate, and grow in one of Southeast Asia's fastest-evolving digital markets."
"Organizations that scale their digital operations across Indonesia are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud strategies to support innovation, improve operational efficiency, and lay the foundation for the next generation of AI-powered Frontier Firms," said Mark Souza, Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Asia. "Microsoft Azure helps customers build flexible hybrid multicloud environments with the security, scalability, and reliability needed for digital transformation. Private connectivity to Microsoft Azure through Equinix in Jakarta further extends these capabilities, helping organizations deploy and scale cloud and AI workloads with greater confidence."
With Microsoft Azure connectivity available across more than 20 countries, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, in Asia-Pacific, Equinix continues to strengthen its position as one of the region’s most interconnected digital infrastructure providers. By enabling consistent, private access to Azure across key business and cloud hubs in Asia-Pacific, Equinix helps organizations accelerate hybrid multicloud strategies, simplify regional deployments and build resilient digital infrastructure closer to where users, data and opportunities reside.
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[1] Mordor Intelligence, Indonesia Cloud - Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts
[2] KPMG, Beyond capacity: Building Indonesia’s intelligent & sustainable data centers
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