AWS Middle East
Global cloud infrastructure with regions in Bahrain and the UAE
Overview
AWS opened the first AWS Region in the Middle East, in Bahrain, in July 2019. A second region followed in the United Arab Emirates in 2022, bringing the operator’s physical footprint in the Gulf to two regions.
This local presence addresses a constraint that has become structural for businesses and public administrations in the region: the ability to process and retain data within defined national borders while still accessing the full catalog of cloud services.
The offering spans the full chain, from compute and storage to managed machine learning services and foundation models. AWS has also announced significant investment commitments in Saudi Arabia, where it plans a first region for December 2026.
Areas of expertise
- Cloud infrastructure
- Compute and storage
- Managed databases
- Machine learning
- Data residency
Regional presence
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Subsidiary of the Emirati group G42 specializing in sovereign cloud, AI-focused compute infrastructure and digital services for the public sector.
- 1 country
- 1000+ staff
UAE-based digital transformation division of e& (formerly Etisalat) group, operating data centers and cloud services including a sovereign cloud platform (OneCloud, built with Oracle Alloy) and an AWS-powered UAE Sovereign Launchpad for government workloads.
- 1 country
- 1000+ staff
Google’s cloud platform, present in the Middle East through Google Cloud regions in Doha, Qatar (opened 2023) and Dammam, Saudi Arabia (opened November 2023), offering infrastructure, data and AI services to regional organizations.
- 2 countries
- 1000+ staff