Asia Tech Wire (June 28) -- Alibaba's cloud computing arm will shut down data centers in Australia and India.

Alibaba Cloud issued a notice on Thursday night that based on a careful assessment and review of its global infrastructure investment layout planning, it has decided to shut down data center services in two regions, Australia and India, while increasing data center investments in Southeast Asia and Mexico.

The company has issued multiple rounds of notifications as well as technical migration plans to its Australian and Indian data center customers since December 2023 onwards.

According to these notifications, its India data center will cease service after 12:00 p.m. local time on July 15, 2024, and its Australia data center will cease service after 12:00 p.m. local time on September 30, 2024.

Alibaba Cloud advises users to migrate their business to its data center in Singapore or elsewhere as soon as possible.