Snowflake To begin Its Services in Indonesia by Bringing Data Cloud To Customers and Partners

By: Asia Business Outlook Team | Thursday, 16 March 2023

Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, announced today the public preview launch of its service in Indonesia, bringing the Data Cloud to customers and partners in the country. Snowflake is expected to be generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region in April 2023, allowing customers and partners to accelerate their migration to the Data Cloud and capitalise on data's power.

Snowflake's Data Cloud platform assists organisations in breaking down data silos by bringing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data together in one place, allowing users to gain critical business insights. Snowflake's Data Cloud platform enables organisations to execute their most critical workloads using a multi-cluster shared data architecture and a fully managed platform that leverages the cloud's near-infinite resources. Furthermore, the platform provides near-limitless access, allowing organisations to develop and run data applications, models, and pipelines wherever data resides, all while unlocking cost-efficiency via a usage-based, per-second pricing model.

“In today's highly competitive world businesses across all sectors are looking to harness the power of data and offer hyper-personalized services to customers, accelerating revenue and growth. Leading global companies have transformed to become data-driven enterprises by democratizing access to data and enabling data collaboration, and data monetisation. As businesses in Indonesia embrace digital technologies, there is an urgent need to make data-driven decisions and unlock the value of data that will fuel growth and innovation in their companies,” said Sanjay Deshmukh, Senior Vice President ASEAN and India, Snowflake.

With the implementation of data residency legislation in Indonesia, the need to unify data across the ecosystem has become a business-critical requirement. Customers in Indonesia who use Snowflake will be able to mobilise data at scale and maximise the value of their data to drive innovation, business agility, and performance. The ability of Snowflake to unify data across silos and enable a vibrant data ecosystem for data users will enable organisations in Indonesia to build a more responsive, resilient digital operation.

"AWS and Snowflake share a common obsession for customers, which underpins our long-standing collaboration that has spanned more than 20 Snowflake horizontal product integrations with AWS,” said Gunawan Susanto, Country Manager, Indonesia, AWS.

“Today’s announcement of the future availability of Snowflake Data Cloud in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region is another step in our continuing collaboration to deliver differentiated, best-of-breed solutions to our joint customers. We are confident that AWS infrastructure and ultra-low latency networks help us deliver highly reliable and available solutions to allow customers to harness data for actionable decision-making,” he added.

Deloitte, a global professional services organization and Snowflake partner welcomed the announcement. “Many enterprises are looking to modernize their operations to reap the benefits of the cloud’s flexibility, scalability, and agility. Our alliance combines the advanced capabilities of Snowflake’s platform with Deloitte’s leadership in strategy, analytics, and technology services to help businesses in Indonesia accelerate their migration to the cloud, reduce costs and shorten innovation cycles,” said, Chris Lewin, Artificial Intelligence and Data Offering Leader for Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia.

Snowflake's entry into Indonesia will bring the power of the Data Cloud to more organisations throughout Southeast Asia, and the company will hire sales, marketing, and solution engineers. Snowflake Indonesia will be led by Satchit Joglekar, Regional Director, ASEAN-Emerging Markets. Snowflake now has offices and operations in 30 countries, beginning with Indonesia.