Alibaba Cloud Opens Amsterdam Region With Two Data Centres

Oct 29, 2026
Alibaba Cloud has opened its first public cloud region in the Netherlands, operating two data centres in Amsterdam. The region provides local cloud and AI services alongside data storage and processing within the Netherlands and EU.

Alibaba Cloud opens its first public cloud region in the Netherlands with two data centres in Amsterdam, according to Data Centre Magazine. The site is its fourth European region after Frankfurt, London and Paris.

The Amsterdam region offers compute, storage, containers, networking, databases, security, big data and cloud native services. It lets customers store and process data in the Netherlands and the EU, while providing local disaster recovery options and lower latency.

Alibaba Cloud plans to add services for companies operating AI agents at scale. These include ACS Agent Sandbox for hardware level isolation, Agent Security Center, AI Security Guardrails 2.0, Agentic SOC and the STAROps operations platform.

The opening brings Alibaba Cloud to 109 availability zones across 32 regions. The company also plans to open its first region in Finland and expand its data centre capacity in Germany and France within 12 months.

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