The American based company Amazon web services to open data centres in United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) in the first half of 2022.
The Middle East ( UAE ) Amazon Web Services will consist of three availability zones and will become AWSs second region in the UAE after Bahrain.
The Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services, Peter DeSantis, said:
“We are excited to build on the great momentum of cloud adoption in the Middle East by providing more choice for customers in the UAE to run applications and store data locally,”
He also mentioned that AWS in UAE will focus on promoting technology innovation that has made it a global hub for e-governments, entrepreneurs and multi national business with new region, organisations of all sizes will be able to innovate faster and serve end users with even lower latency across the region.
The Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, Mohammed Ali Al Shorafa, said:
“Building on Abu Dhabi’s smart infrastructure and digital transformation, AWS’s investment will further enable innovators and companies with globally-relevant solutions to realise new opportunities in the UAE and beyond.”
The addition of the Amazon Web Services in United Arab Emirates Region will enable local customers with data residency requirements to store their data in the UAE while also providing even lower latency across the country.
Advanced technologies can be accessed by the organisations using this region from the broadest and deepest suite of cloud services to drive innovation including compute, networking, database, storage, networking, machine learning, analytics and more.
