Malaysian fintech Instapay Technologies has selected Alibaba Cloud to support its payment platform.
As reported by Tech in Asia, Instapay will use Alibaba Cloud’s local cloud infrastructure for products including e-wallet and prepaid Mastercard.
Alibaba Cloud has been selected to enable Instapay to scale quickly and reliably, while meeting regulatory requirements. The fintech is regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia.
Speaking on the agreement, Choong Hon Keat, general manager of Malaysia at Alibaba Cloud, said: “By utilizing our secure, scalable infrastructure and cutting-edge cloud computing technologies, Instapay is empowering unbanked and underserved communities with greater access to digital financial services.
“This partnership reflects not only the strength of Alibaba Cloud’s solutions but also our commitment to enabling meaningful digital transformation that positively impacts lives and livelihoods.”
Instapay is leveraging Multi-Zone Load Balancers on Alibaba Cloud that distribute incoming traffic across multiple availability zones, ensuring fault tolerance and high availability, and are using Auto Scaling Groups, which enables Instapay to scale according to user demand.
Instapay’s co-founder and CEO, Rajnish Kumar, added: “By leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s localized infrastructure, we’ve accelerated payment innovation, ensured service reliability during peak demand, and built a strong foundation for financial inclusion among unbanked migrant workers. This partnership enhances our resilience and supports our vision of making payroll management seamless, secure, and inclusive while driving broader digital transformation across Southeast Asia’s fintech landscape.”
A Chinese hyperscaler, Alibaba Cloud has been aggressively increasing its global footprint. At the start of 2025, the company said it would spend some $53 billion expanding its cloud and AI infrastructure.
The company has had a cloud region in Malaysia since October 2017, at the time making it the first global public cloud platform to host infrastructure in the country, and now has three data centers in the country, launching its latest in July 2025. All three are located in and around Kuala Lumpur.
In September 2025, the company said it would be expanding further in Malaysia.