Effective January 1, 2026, Vietnam's Personal Data Protection Law No. 91/2025/QH15 officially came into force. For technology leaders at financial institutions, retailers, and software companies, the question is no longer "do we need to comply?" — it's "which cloud provider can actually help us get there?"

To answer that, you need to look honestly at the market. Cloud providers in Vietnam fall into two clear camps: international players like AWS and Azure, and domestic providers like GreenNode, VNPT Cloud, FPT Cloud, and Viettel IDC. The compliance gap between these two groups isn't just a technical difference — it's a difference in fundamental architecture.

Why the new legal framework creates a real problem for international cloud

Decree 13/2023/ND-CP — effective July 1, 2023 — laid the first groundwork for personal data governance in Vietnam. Building on that, the Personal Data Protection Law 2025 (passed June 26, 2025) establishes a full set of citizen rights: the right to be informed, the right to erasure, and specific requirements for storing sensitive data within Vietnamese territory.

For AWS and Microsoft Azure, the bottleneck is straightforward: neither has a physical data center in Vietnam. Data is typically routed through Singapore — AWS ap-southeast-1 or Azure Southeast Asia. That creates a legally complicated situation when sensitive data belonging to Vietnamese citizens is stored outside the country's borders. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are meaningful security credentials — but they don't substitute for the geographic requirements that Vietnamese law explicitly demands.

This is why a growing number of CTOs and IT Directors are being forced to rethink their cloud strategy from the ground up.

Comparing domestic cloud providers on compliance

Among domestic providers, each player occupies a distinct position — no two are quite the same.

Viettel IDC was among the first in Vietnam to achieve ISO 27018:2019, the international standard specifically covering personal data protection in cloud environments. According to the VNCDC 2024 report, Viettel IDC leads the domestic data center market with a 48.4% share, with particular strength in government and telecommunications. The limitation: its GPU Cloud and AI service catalog remains relatively thin compared to dedicated AI platforms.

VNPT Cloud holds 20.3% of the data center market and carries strong institutional credibility in public-sector and state-backed financial projects. Infrastructure meets Tier III standards, though its AI ecosystem is still taking shape.

FPT Cloud (around 17% market share per VNCDC 2024) stands out for its consulting depth and integrated IT delivery teams. FPT Smart Cloud's security division was ranked Top 8 globally in Microsoft's MSRC FY2025 leaderboard as of July 2025 — a notable achievement. That said, FPT Cloud positions itself more toward hybrid cloud than pure-play AI workloads.

GreenNode: an AI Cloud platform built compliance-first

GreenNode was born from the official merger of VNG Cloud and GreenNode on December 16, 2025. But what sets the platform apart isn't its origin story — it's the product architecture. This is the only provider in Vietnam offering a full stack from GPU Cloud and AI Platform to Model as a Service (MaaS) and real-world AI applications, all running within Vietnamese and Southeast Asian territory, on a single unified ecosystem.

On compliance, GreenNode maintains a comprehensive certification portfolio: ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and PCI DSS. Most notably, GreenNode is the first provider in Vietnam to receive a SOC 2 Type 2 report for its GPU Cloud services — a standard that validates the operational effectiveness of security controls, and one that most domestic providers have yet to reach. The platform has also been certified as a Safe Vietnamese Cloud Computing Platform by the Authority of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications.

Data is stored and processed across 6 availability zones in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Bangkok — directly satisfying the data residency requirements under the Personal Data Protection Law 2025. Beyond certifications, the Vietnam Data Shield program — carried forward from VNG Cloud — helps businesses audit their current posture and build a concrete compliance roadmap tailored to their industry.

For more on navigating cloud compliance in the Vietnamese market, or a detailed breakdown of Decree 13/2023/ND-CP on personal data protection, see our dedicated guides.

GreenNode AI Cloud Ecosystem: everything a business needs to run AI

Most businesses don't struggle with AI because they lack ideas — they struggle because they're stitching together too many tools from too many vendors. GreenNode solves that with a single integrated ecosystem: from GPU to application layer, everything runs on one platform, trusted by over 1,000 enterprises across the region.

The GreenNode ecosystem is organized into two parallel capability layers:

Cloud Infrastructure — the foundation

Compute is where raw processing power lives. GreenNode offers GPU Instances across the full NVIDIA lineup — HGX H100, DGX H100, L40S, A40, RTX series — built for large-scale AI training and inference. Alongside that, CPU Instances (General, High-CPU, High-Memory) give businesses the flexibility to run business-critical systems or modern applications with the performance and reliability to scale confidently. For organizations that need full infrastructure control, GreenNode also provides Dedicated Cloud Instances and Bare Metal H100.

Network operates across two layers: Cloud Network (VPC, Load Balancer L4/L7, Elastic IP, Multi-Region Global Load Balance, Bandwidth Dedicated, NAT Gateway) and Cross Hybrid Network (Cross Connect, Interconnect Network, VPN Site-to-Site) — ensuring seamless connectivity between on-premise environments and the cloud. The Delivery & Security layer adds CDN, Web Accelerator, Live Streaming, Video on-demand, and Web Application Firewall.

Storage is tiered to match workload needs: NVMe Block Storage at 5,000–60,000 IOPS for high-performance demands; Object Storage in two tiers (Gold for high-throughput workloads, Instance Archive for backup); and File Storage in SSD and HDD types. Enough range to cover everything from AI data pipelines to long-term archiving.

AI & Platform — the development and deployment layer

Kubernetes (VKS) is the container orchestration layer at the center of GreenNode's platform development focus. VKS provides a Fully Managed Control Plane with Seamless Upgrade, Multi-AZ Self-Healing infrastructure, Advanced Networking with Calico and Cilium Native VPC Routing, a secure Built-in Container Registry (vCR), and Private Cluster/Private Node Group options for sensitive workloads.

Database services are built with AI in mind: Vector Database (PostgreSQL pgvector, OpenSearch) for semantic search and hybrid queries; Relational Database Service — RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) for traditional OLTP; MemoryStore Database Service — MDS (Redis) for low-latency caching and pub/sub; and Streaming & Messaging (Kafka) for real-time data pipelines.

AgentBase is GreenNode's newest product — and the clearest differentiator from every other domestic cloud provider in Vietnam. AgentBase is a serverless infrastructure platform purpose-built for deploying and operating AI Agents at production scale. Think of it as the infrastructure layer that sits between your agent logic and the real world, handling the operational complexity so your team doesn't have to.

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and Video Management System are two ready-to-deploy AI applications for organizations that don't want to build models from scratch. IDP processes over 200 document types with accuracy above 95%, combining OCR with LLM capabilities. Video Management System supports Face Detection, License Plate Recognition, and People Counting out of the box.

Management & Governance rounds out the ecosystem with Identity & Security (IAM, KMS, AES 256, MFA), Observability (Infrastructure Monitor, Log Insight, Synthetic Monitoring), Reliability (DRaaS, multi-site Backup as a Service, Snapshot), Deployment & Migration (Terraform/API, Block Storage Conversion, Data Sync), and a self-service Portal Management with Cost Explorer and Audit Trail.

The full ecosystem is further extended by a Marketplace pre-integrated with security solutions from Veeam, Palo Alto, Fortinet, pfSense, Check Point, Peplink, and F5 Networks — plus Professional Services covering Cloud Adoption, Cloud Managed Services, AI Delivery Services, and 24×7×365 support.

Which businesses is GreenNode the right fit for?

GreenNode is the strongest match for organizations that need to satisfy three things at once: full compliance with Vietnam's personal data protection regulations, the ability to run AI workloads at genuine scale, and 24/7 technical support from a team that actually understands the local market.

The names already running on GreenNode make that case better than any description. FE CREDIT keeps mission-critical systems running for 14 million customers across 21,000 service points nationwide. A major commercial bank has automated the processing of over 150 million documents using Intelligent Document Processing, cutting processing time by more than 90%. ACFC & VFBS run 350+ POS locations across 25 retail brands without disruption — after migrating their entire POS, ERP, and HRM stack onto the platform.

SotaTek is a different kind of proof point — speed. The entire Sotabox.ai platform was deployed in 30 days, with DevOps costs down 30% through a combination of vDB, Kafka, and VKS.

If your organization is revisiting its cloud strategy in light of the Personal Data Protection Law 2025 — or simply wants to understand what GreenNode can do in your specific industry — reach out to our solutions team directly, or explore the full product catalog to find out where to start.