About Vietnam
Vietnam is one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing internet markets, with more than 80 million internet users, a mobile-first consumer base, and data localisation rules that push consumer platforms to host inside the country. Ho Chi Minh City anchors the commercial south, Hanoi serves the north, and Da Nang covers the central coast between them.
Zenlayer operates 13 data centers in Vietnam: eight in Ho Chi Minh City, four in Hanoi, and one in Da Nang. IP transit is live in 11 of them, colocation and Cloud Connect in six, Cloud WAN in five, and bare metal cloud (BMC) and CDN in three, which gives teams a domestic delivery and interconnection layer across both primary metros.
Vietnam neighbours Zenlayer's Thailand market, sits north of Singapore, and stays within regional backbone reach of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, which makes it a common second market for teams already serving the region from Singapore. Deployments here typically start in Ho Chi Minh City for audience proximity, then add Hanoi for northern coverage and site redundancy.
Compute in Vietnam
Vietnamese compute centres on bare metal cloud (BMC), available in three of the country's 13 data centers, alongside edge colocation in six sites for teams running their own hardware. Bare metal is the usual choice in this market because it keeps regulated data inside Vietnam and sits directly on the domestic networks that reach local users.
Typical workloads include game servers for Vietnam's mobile player base, streaming and OTT origins feeding local caches, and fintech and e-commerce APIs subject to in-country data handling rules. Platforms already running core services from Singapore commonly add a Vietnamese tier for session, payment, and content traffic.
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 Vietnam
IP transit is the most widely available network service in Vietnam, live in 11 of the 13 data centers, with Cloud Connect in six, Cloud WAN in five, and CDN in three. Transit sourced inside the country hands traffic to domestic networks locally, so a request from a Vietnamese user can be answered without an international hop in the path.
Cloud Connect covers the private side of that picture: dedicated circuits from a Vietnamese rack out to cloud regions hosted elsewhere in Asia, so traffic between a local front end and an offshore back end never touches the public internet. Where a deployment spans several markets at once, Cloud WAN carries it on Zenlayer's managed backbone instead, with Vietnam treated as one attachment point among the region's other sites.
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 Vietnam
Colocation is available in six of Zenlayer's 13 Vietnamese data centers, so enterprises can run their own racks next to managed compute and IP transit. Certifications vary by facility and include ISO 27001, ISO 22301, PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type II, and SOC 2 Type II, with ISO 50001 energy management at some sites, so procurement teams should confirm the profile of the specific site under review.
Site selection is the main planning decision here. Ho Chi Minh City holds eight of the country's 13 data centers and is the usual anchor, Hanoi's four sites cover the north, and pairing the two metros produces a resilient national design rather than concentrating racks in one city. Teams that need capacity in place before their own hardware arrives often start on Zenlayer bare metal and migrate to owned equipment later.
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 Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
SGNVietnam's southern commercial capital and the Mekong Delta's gateway to the country's fastest-growing economy.
Hanoi
HANVietnam's capital and the northern hub closest to the China border and cross-border terrestrial routes.
Da Nang
DADVietnam's third-largest city, anchoring the central coast between the Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh markets.
Data Centers in Vietnam
13 totalHo Chi Minh City
Vietnam's southern commercial capital and the Mekong Delta's gateway to the country's fastest-growing economy.
8 DCs
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam's southern commercial capital and the Mekong Delta's gateway to the country's fastest-growing economy.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| AP-Ho Chi Minh1(FPT DC7)SGN1 |  | ColoIP TransitCloud WANCloud Connect |
| AP-Ho Chi Minh2(Indochina Telecommunication JSC)SGN2 |  | ColoIP Transit |
| AP-Ho Chi Minh3(FPT DC8)SGN3 | | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud WANCloud ConnectCDN |
| AP-Ho Chi Minh4(FPT DC9)SGN4 | | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud Connect |
| AP-Ho Chi Minh5(Viettel)SGN5 |  | ColoIP TransitCloud WANCloud ConnectCDN |
| AP-Ho Chi Minh6(Mobifone)SGN6 |  | ColoIP Transit |
| AP-Ho Chi Minh7(PVS Storage)SGN7 |  | Colo |
| AP-Ho Chi Minh8(STT)SGN8 | STT Global Data Centres India | Colo |
Hanoi
Vietnam's capital and the northern hub closest to the China border and cross-border terrestrial routes.
4 DCs
Hanoi
Vietnam's capital and the northern hub closest to the China border and cross-border terrestrial routes.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| AP-Hanoi1(Viettel)HAN1 | | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud WANCloud ConnectCDN |
| AP-Hanoi2(FPT)HAN2 | | ColoIP TransitCloud WANCloud Connect |
| AP-Hanoi3(Indochina Telecommunication JSC)HAN3 | Indochina Telecom | ColoIP Transit |
| AP-Hanoi4(Mobifone)HAN4 | | ColoIP Transit |
Da Nang
Vietnam's third-largest city, anchoring the central coast between the Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh markets.
1 DC
Da Nang
Vietnam's third-largest city, anchoring the central coast between the Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh markets.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| AP-Da Nang1(Viettel)DAD1 | | ColoIP Transit |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Vietnam.
Where are Zenlayer's data centers located in Vietnam?
<p>Zenlayer operates 13 data centers in Vietnam: eight in Ho Chi Minh City, four in Hanoi, and one in Da Nang. The footprint follows the country's two commercial centres, with Ho Chi Minh City carrying the largest share because the south concentrates consumer demand and international capacity, while Da Nang adds a central-coast site between the two metros.</p>
What cloud and network services are available in Vietnam?
<p>IP transit is available in 11 of the 13 Vietnamese sites, colocation and Cloud Connect in six, Cloud WAN in five, and bare metal cloud (BMC) and CDN in three. Vietnam is a delivery and interconnection market rather than a full-stack compute region, so deployments here commonly pair local transit and colocation with compute in Vietnam or a neighbouring Zenlayer market.</p>
Should enterprises deploy in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi?
<p>It depends on the workload. Ho Chi Minh City holds eight of the 13 Vietnamese data centers and is the usual first site for consumer platforms, e-commerce, and fintech serving the south. Hanoi's four sites cover the northern population and the enterprise base around the capital. Platforms with national reach commonly run both, with Da Nang available as a third location.</p>
How does hosting inside Vietnam change delivery performance?
<p>Traffic that leaves the country has to cross international routes reached through a limited set of subsea cable access points, two of which serve Zenlayer's Vietnamese footprint. Serving users from Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi keeps the request path on domestic networks instead, so page loads, game sessions, and payment calls are not exposed to conditions on the international leg.</p>
What countries does Zenlayer operate in near Vietnam?
<p>Zenlayer's Southeast Asian footprint includes Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, among other markets in the region, all reachable from Vietnam over the Cloud WAN backbone. Singapore is the common pairing for teams that want a deeper compute and cloud on-ramp tier, with Vietnam holding the in-country delivery and data residency layer.</p>
Deploy Infrastructure in Vietnam
Talk with Zenlayer to design a Vietnam deployment that pairs Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi with domestic transit and in-country data residency.