About Singapore
Singapore is the interconnection gateway for Southeast Asia, the point where the subsea cable systems serving the region converge and where regional networks meet to exchange traffic. A dense neutral carrier market and a contracting environment enterprise buyers already understand make it the first node most teams place when entering the region.
Zenlayer operates 19 data centers in Singapore, all in the one metro, with IP transit at 8, Cloud WAN at 7, colocation and Cloud Connect at 6 each, bare metal cloud and public cloud at 3 each, and CDN at 1. Traffic between Zenlayer facilities in the city stays under 2ms, so a deployment can span several sites and still behave as one location, combining dedicated compute, private cloud on-ramps, and delivery capacity without adding a second country.
The concentration of cloud and carrier operators in the city, together with a data protection regime familiar to regulated buyers, makes Singapore a practical base for regional workloads, with backbone reach into Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Teams commonly anchor here first, then add an in-country node once local volume justifies one.
Compute in Singapore
Singapore carries bare metal cloud (BMC) at 3 data centers and public cloud capacity at 3, giving teams dedicated hardware and elastic instances inside the same metro. Bare metal is the common choice here for workloads with steady throughput and data residency obligations, because the hardware is allocated to a single tenant and sits directly on the interconnection fabric.
Deployments in this market typically fall into four shapes: game servers covering players across Southeast Asia, fintech and trading systems that need deterministic latency, AI inference nodes placed close to the hyperscaler regions operating in the city, and regional API tiers fronting backends held elsewhere in Asia.
Enterprise hardware
Intel Xeon Scalable. Up to 384 GB RAM. NVMe and SSD storage tiers.
Premium network
100+ Tbps backbone with dynamic, latency-optimized routing.
Instant provisioning
Deploy via Terraform, REST API, or the point-and-click zenConsole.
Flexible billing
Hourly pay-as-you-go with discounts for longer commitments.
Networking in Singapore
Zenlayer's Singapore network stack covers IP transit at 8 data centers, Cloud WAN at 7, Cloud Connect at 6, and CDN at 1. Those services sit in a metro with more than 100 carriers on net and three major internet exchanges, so traffic reaches regional ISPs, content networks, and clouds through direct peering instead of transiting an upstream abroad.
Cloud Connect provides private, dedicated links into the public cloud regions operating in Singapore, keeping cloud-bound traffic off the public internet for steadier throughput. Cloud WAN places the market on Zenlayer's global software-defined backbone, which carries Singapore traffic onward to the rest of Asia-Pacific.
IP Transit
Blended carrier routes tuned for the lowest real-world latency.
Cloud Connect
Private, dedicated links into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle.
Cloud WAN
Software-defined backbone spanning 290+ points of presence.
Edge protection
Layer 3 and 4 DDoS mitigation with real-time traffic filtering.
Colocation in Singapore
Colocation is available at 6 of Zenlayer's 19 Singapore data centers, for enterprises running their own hardware alongside managed compute and network services. Facilities hold SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 attestations, a usual precondition for financial services and regulated platform tenants.
Because Singapore is a single-metro market, planning here is a question of which of those 6 sites carries the adjacent services a deployment needs, not which city to choose. Intra-city latency under 2ms means a cabinet at one facility can sit behind IP transit or a cloud on-ramp at another. Teams planning sustained growth often reserve headroom early, or pair Singapore with a neighbouring market such as Malaysia or Indonesia.
Carrier-neutral
Access to 400+ carriers and major regional peering exchanges.
Flexible power
Standard and high-density rack configurations on request.
Secure access
Biometric entry, CCTV, and 24/7 dedicated remote hands.
Rapid turn-up
Cage-to-production cross-connects in days, not weeks.
Cities in Singapore
Data Centers in Singapore
19 totalSingapore
Southeast Asia's interconnection nexus, where most of the region's subsea cables meet its financial center.
19 DCs
Singapore
Southeast Asia's interconnection nexus, where most of the region's subsea cables meet its financial center.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| AP-Singapore1(Equinix_SG1)SIN1 |  | ColoIP TransitCloud WANCloud Connect |
| AP-Singapore10(Equinix SG3)SIN10 | | ColoIP TransitCloud WAN |
| AP-Singapore12(DRT_SIN10)SIN12 | Digital Singapore Jurong East | Colo |
| AP-Singapore13(Equinix SG4)SIN13 | | ColoIP Transit |
| AP-Singapore14(Equinix SG5)SIN14 | | ColoIP TransitCloud WANCloud Connect |
| AP-Singapore16(DRT_SIN12)SIN16 | Digital Singapore Jurong East | Colo |
| AP-Singapore18(Singtel_KCTC-2)SIN18 | Singapore Telecommunications | Colo |
| AP-Singapore19(Keppel_SGP1)SIN19 | | Colo |
| AP-Singapore2(Equinix_SG2)SIN2 | | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud WANCloud ConnectCDN |
| AP-Singapore21(Telstra CLS)SIN21 | China Mobile | Colo |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Singapore.
Where are Zenlayer's data centers located in Singapore?
<p>Zenlayer operates 19 data centers in Singapore, and because the country is a single city-state, that is the entire national footprint in one metro. Site selection here is therefore driven by which services a given facility carries rather than by geography, and with intra-city latency under 2ms, a deployment can span more than one site without a meaningful routing penalty.</p>
What cloud and network services are available in Singapore?
<p>Singapore carries bare metal cloud (BMC) and public cloud at 3 data centers each, colocation at 6, Cloud Connect at 6, Cloud WAN at 7, IP transit at 8, and CDN at 1. Availability differs by facility, so a deployment that needs bare metal next to a private cloud on-ramp is placed at a site carrying both rather than assumed across all 19.</p>
Why deploy in Singapore rather than another Southeast Asian city?
<p>Singapore concentrates three things at once: the heaviest subsea cable convergence in the region, more than 100 carriers on net reachable across three major internet exchanges, and a data protection and contracting regime that enterprise buyers already understand. Teams serving several Southeast Asian countries from one location usually start here.</p>
How do subsea cable landings affect routing across the region?
<p>Most traffic between Southeast Asian markets travels on subsea systems rather than terrestrial routes, and many of those systems land in or transit Singapore. Serving Jakarta, Bangkok, or Manila from Singapore therefore follows a direct cable path instead of being backhauled through a third country, which removes intermediate networks from the route and keeps the path as short as the cable geography allows.</p>
What markets does Zenlayer operate near Singapore in the region?
<p>The nearest Zenlayer markets to Singapore are Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, with further Southeast Asian coverage in Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar, plus Nepal in South Asia. Singapore reaches all of them over the same software-defined backbone, which makes it a workable anchor for a multi-country deployment run from one place.</p>
Deploy Infrastructure in Singapore
Talk with Zenlayer to design a Singapore deployment anchored on subsea cable convergence, dense regional peering, and private on-ramps into Asia-Pacific clouds.