RIYADH: Amazon Web Services and IBM Consulting are set to fast-track cloud adoption in Saudi Arabia, with new investments and partnerships designed to accelerate digital transformation, strengthen cybersecurity and support the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 goals.
As part of the collaboration, the companies said they will work to bolster local talent, explore the establishment of a joint innovation hub in Riyadh and support national sustainability goals.
Speaking to Arab News on the sidelines of the AWS Cloud Day event in Riyadh, Tanuja Randery, managing director of AWS, said that the company’s Saudi cloud region will go live in 2026 as part of a $5 billion investment in data center infrastructure.
“We are deeply anchored here in this region … we’ve announced that our Saudi region will go live in 2026, and that is about a 5 billion dollar investment that we’re making just purely in the data center infrastructure that supports the innovation that we see,” Randery told Arab News.
She added: “We’re doing that because our customers in the region need public cloud infrastructure to be able to scale, to be able to have a more resilient infrastructure and more secure infrastructure.”
