Amazon Web Services invests $5.3 billion to launch Saudi cloud region in 2026

Amazon Web Services has reaffirmed its plan to launch a new cloud infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026, backed by a long-term investment of more than $5.3 billion. The new region will debut with three physically separated availability zones, enabling local developers, startups, enterprises, and government bodies to run applications from data centers within the country while ensuring full data sovereignty and regulatory compliance. This move aligns with Saudi Arabia’s Cloud First policy and Vision 2030, marking a critical step in the Kingdom’s digital transformation by enhancing storage security, workload management speed, and access to advanced AI and machine learning technologies.