[toomanybeersies]

It's not even just the government.

I wouldn't store any confidential/secure data in a country that you can bribe cops for relatively trivial sums in. That does end up writing off most of the world for storage, admittedly.

[ernsheong]

Most startups in Malaysia use services like S3 storage and host their databases elsewhere, which are not based in Malaysia (usually Singapore, Japan, US, etc.) At my first startup job my boss insisted to never store any data in Malaysia because he was kinda paranoid. If a Malaysian startup does that is it still a concern for international users?

I'm Malaysian and I'm wondering what the perception is for an international user if a SaaS business is known to be from Malaysia.

For the record, bigwig companies like Grab had its roots in Malaysia. Only when they started getting big they moved to Singapore, perhaps due to such perception issues, and also talent.

Anyway, I've lived and grown up in Malaysia, and all I can say is that while the system ain't perfect, but daily life goes on with normalcy and I'm not so sure about the FUD portayed in comments.

[walrus01]

Yeah there is a huge difference. If you have a datacenter in Grant County, WA, attempting to bribe the police will only result in them arresting you and calling the feds.