Alibaba Cloud, the Alibaba Group’s global AI infrastructure provider, has launched its first cloud region in Brazil, consisting of two data centers.

The new region offers businesses, startups, developers, and public institutions access to a comprehensive portfolio of cloud services with local infrastructure, designed for mission-critical workloads that require low latency, resilience, and data governance. The company also plans to introduce enterprise-grade agent-based AI services in the region.

The launch marks Alibaba Cloud’s first region in South America and expands its presence in Latin America, following the inauguration of the Mexico region in February 2025. With this expansion, the company now operates 106 availability zones across 31 regions worldwide, as part of a global investment of $53 billion (275.4 billion reais) in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Allen Guo, general manager of the Latin America Region and vice president of International Business at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, highlighted Brazil as one of the world’s most dynamic digital economies and as a key market for the company’s expansion in the region. According to Guo, the combination of local infrastructure, an AI and cloud portfolio, and a growing partner ecosystem aims to support Brazilian companies in developing cloud and AI capabilities, connecting them to the company’s global network.

The new region offers services ranging from computing, storage, and networking to databases, big data, and cloud-native solutions, enabling local customers to operate with greater availability, stability, and disaster recovery, in compliance with local cybersecurity and data governance regulations and standards. To meet the demand for AI, the company also plans to launch a suite of enterprise agent services in Brazil—including ACS Agent Sandbox, DAS Agent, Data Agent for Analytics, Meta Agent, DataWorks Data Agent, STAROps, NAPal, Agent Security Center, AI Security Guardrails 2.0, and Agentic SOC—designed for the development, operation, and protection of AI agents at scale.

Alibaba Cloud has also established local partnerships to strengthen its ecosystem in the country. Insi, a Brazilian provider of technology solutions, will use Alibaba’s cloud and AI portfolio to offer customized solutions to corporate clients. Roberto Certo, chief revenue officer at Insi, stated that the new local region enables the company to serve businesses undergoing modernization with the necessary performance, security, and data residency.

Meanwhile, 4Linux, a Brazilian company specializing in open source and IT services, will combine Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen models with its expertise in deployment and training to bring generative AI to companies in the country. According to Marcelo Marques, co-founder of 4Linux, the partnership offers customers a reliable foundation for building and scaling AI solutions, supported by Alibaba Cloud’s technological leadership and commitment to its partners.

The announcement comes amid recent advances by Alibaba in open-source models, such as Qwen3.8-Flash and Qwen3.8-27B, in addition to the release of open model weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B—the most powerful model in the Qwen line to date. The launch in Brazil continues Alibaba Cloud’s regional expansion, which already includes operations in Mexico, France, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia.