Last week I presented the latest TeleGeography data on Asian cloud data centers through a live webinar with Ciena.
Let’s talk through the first section of my presentation which maps out the region’s current cloud data center and cloud service provider landscape.
I’ll also share a link to download my slides and watch a recording of the discussion.
Asia’s Cloud Data Center Landscape
At this time there are over 90 active cloud regions throughout West East and South Asia. This count does not include Oceania which is home to about 15 additional cloud regions.
Cloud data center landscape in Asia-1-1
It’s important to note that almost half of Asia’s cloud regions (41) are located in China.
Outside of China the other top markets are Japan (12) India (12) South Korea (9) and Singapore (7). Japan and Singapore are two of the more mature markets as is China. India and South Korea have been developing more recently.
If we switch from looking at cloud regions to the service providers themselves here’s what we see.
Asia’s Cloud Service Provider Landscape
In terms of total regions launched in Asia Alibaba (21) and Microsoft (19) are presently in the lead.
The next tier of cloud service providers—Tencent Huawei AWS and Google—have each launched between 11 and 14 regions.
Cloud service provider landscape in Asia-2
The first Asian cloud data centers were launched in 2010 by AWS and Microsoft. Next came Alibaba in 2011 and Tencent in 2012. From this point up until around 2014 there was an average of four cloud regions launched annually.
Between 2014 and 2015 Google and Huawei launched their first data centers in the region and the average rose to eight cloud regions launched annually.
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The next big jump came in 2018 and 2019 when
Oracle and IBM started launching their Asian data centers. In 2019 the number of cloud regions launched reached a peak of 13.
Then COVID-19 hit resulting in a slight slowdown. Between 2020 and 2022 the average went back down to eight cloud regions launched annually. At the moment 2023 looks about the same.
To better understand the cloud market rollout it’s important to look at the submarine cable landscape.
To better understand the cloud market rollout it’s important to look at the submarine cable landscape.
Download my full slide deck to explore the growth and future of the submarine cables that have helped interconnect cloud regions and cloud provider networks.
You can also access the recording of this webinar over here
We recently surveyed a mixture of carriers and MSPs SD-WAN vendors and pure-play security vendors about their network security offerings in order to analyze what these services are and how they are being offered.
In this analysis we also detail the available pricing models across services.
Here’s an excerpt.
As we saw with the emergence of SD-WAN several years ago we expected to see pricing models for SASE/ZTS services vary considerably by provider.
While we hope to one day add some actual prices to the survey we first need to establish how providers are presenting charges for these services to enterprise customers and evaluate if the market is settling on specific pricing models we could use to compare across providers.
We asked respondents to identify how they charge customers
For each service whether by user bandwidth encrypted throughput or by some other metric. Responses varied by provider product and security partner used.
To better track pricing strategy trends we distilled any long-form answers into discrete categories. We then tracked the number of instances a certain pricing strategy was noted across all providers and products.
Pricing Types Across All Products (2023)
Each bar represents the total number of instances of respondents noting each pricing type across all products. Source: TeleGeography © 2023 TeleGeography
The most common pricing strategy was to charge customers per user with 34 individual instances.
Per site and per bandwidth were the next most implement a binary search tree common pricing strategies.
Nearly a dozen times providers indicated they did not
Have an additional charge to add a service to an existing security stack.
There was a long tail of various pricing strategies listed that mostly used a mixture of strategies or some sort of monthly recurring cost per product.
It is quite likely that in updates of this study that include a predetermined list of pricing strategies we will be able to consolidate these categories that we constructed from long form answers. For example “MRC” is likely not mutually exclusive with other categories such as “per user” and “per bandwidth.” Future updates will provide respondents with specific categories to chose from hopefully eliminating several categories.
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