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Cloud Providers

Cloud infrastructure operators with regions, availability zones or sovereign offerings in the Middle East.

4 companies listed · United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait

AWS Middle East

Cloud Providers

Global cloud provider operating multiple regions in the Middle East, with an offering spanning compute, storage, databases and artificial intelligence services.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Core42

Cloud Providers

Subsidiary of the Emirati group G42 specializing in sovereign cloud, AI-focused compute infrastructure and digital services for the public sector.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Microsoft’s cloud platform, present in the Middle East through infrastructure regions in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, with AI capabilities built into enterprise tools.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Cloud provider with multiple regions in the Middle East, strongly positioned in databases and enterprise management applications.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Cloud Providers in the Middle East

Cloud providers form the foundation on which the entire regional ecosystem rests. Their physical presence in the region determines latency, regulatory compliance and local companies’ ability to process sensitive data.

Since 2019, the major global players have opened regions in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Regional operators and sovereign offerings round out this landscape for public administrations and regulated sectors.

For a regional decision-maker, the determining factor is no longer service availability, but the exact location of the data and the legal regime that applies to it.