Amazon Web Services to launch Infrastructure Region in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, Monday announced it will launch an AWS Infrastructure Region in Saudi Arabia in 2026.
The new AWS Region will give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as healthcare, education, gaming, and nonprofit organizations, greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in Saudi Arabia, ensuring that customers who want to keep their content in-country can do so.
As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than $5.3bn in Saudi Arabia.
“Today’s announcement supports Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation with the highest levels of security and resilience available on AWS cloud infrastructure, helping serve fastgrowing demand for cloud services across the Middle East,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS.
“The new AWS Region will enable organizations to unlock the full potential of the cloud and build with AWS technologies like compute, storage, databases, analytics, and artificial intelligence, transforming the way businesses and institutions serve their customers. We look forward to helping Saudi Arabian institutions, startups, and enterprises deliver cloudpowered applications to accelerate growth, productivity, and innovation and spur job creation, skills training, and educational opportunities.”
“The partnership with AWS and their announcement of an AWS Region, backed by a $5.3bn investment, ignites a new era of technological excellence and innovation for the Kingdom,” said Abdullah Alswaha, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology. “This AWS Region demonstrates a firm commitment to research, innovation, and empowering entrepreneurs to achieve prosperity for our region and the world.”
The new AWS Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, adding to the existing 105 Availability Zones across 33 geographic regions globally. With today’s announcement, AWS has plans to launch 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
AWS offers the broadest and deepest portfolio of services, including analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), compute, database, Internet of Things (IOT), machine learning (ML), mobile services, storage, and other cloud technologies. Customers from startups to enterprises to public sector organisations and nonprofits will be able to use advanced technologies from the world’s leading cloud to drive innovation, meet data residency preferences, achieve lower latency, and serve demand for cloud services in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East.