Oracle has launched a second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia, part of the company’s $1.5 billion investment to help advance the kingdom’s cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence-based economy.
The Austin, Texas-based cloud services provider, which already operates a public cloud region in Jeddah, added the new center in Riyadh, with plans to set up a third in Neom, a futuristic city being built in northwest of the country. Oracle’s local partner for the Riyadh region is center3, which announced an expansion of its Khurais Riyadh data center in June 2023.
The Oracle regions offer customers migration for all kinds of workloads and provide opportunities for applications modernization, data innovation, analytics and AI use. In Saudi Arabia, the two regions can also harness the Oracle infrastructure for backup and recovery for business continuity and addressing local rules and requirements.
The company’s latest move aligns with Saudi Vision 2030, which includes the development of a robust digital economy as one of its goals.
“The Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region will help accelerate adoption of cloud and AI technologies to boost innovation across all sectors of the Saudi economy, while helping organizations addressing local data hosting requirements,” said Richard Smith, Oracle’s executive vice president of technology for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.