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Strategic Internet IntelligenceJun 11, 2026
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Government or regulator

Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

GOVERNMENT

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Why tracked

Saudi ministry whose minister publicly framed the AWS Region as a strategic partnership and whose ecosystem anchors Saudi cloud and AI infrastructure policy.

Known role

GOVERNMENT

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Relationships

AWS

Saudi official releases and the MCIT minister describe a strategic partnership with AWS and Amazon around cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities.

partners withConfidence: 88%
partner

Amazon will build data centre in Saudi Arabia with huge investment

Amazon Web Services' Saudi Arabia Region announcement is a cloud-sovereignty and infrastructure-capacity signal, not a generic corporate expansion item. AWS said on 4 March 2024 that it would launch an AWS infrastructure Region in Saudi Arabia in 2026 and invest more than $5.3 billion in the Kingdom. The public record supports a cloud Region with three Availability Zones at launch, local data-residency choice and skills programs; it does not identify the exact data-centre sites, power contracts, water design or customer commitments behind the build.

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