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Oracle opens public cloud region in Riyadh , second cloud region in Saudi Arabia
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its AI and cloud services , Oracle announced the opening of its second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia . The new Riyadh cloud region will help public and private sector organisations migrate all types of workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , giving them access to a wide range of cloud services to modernise their applications and innovate with data , analytics , and AI . Center3 is the host partner for the new Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region .
Part of Oracle ’ s distributed cloud strategy and Oracle ’ s US $ 1.5 billion investment to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the Saudi Arabia , the new region will help boost the Saudi Arabia ’ s AI economy , which is expected to reach $ 135.2 billion by 2030 . The Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region joins the existing Oracle Cloud Jeddah Region and the planned Oracle Cloud Region in NEOM to extend Oracle ’ s footprint in Saudi Arabia .
Oracle is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering AI and a full suite of 100 + cloud services across dedicated , public , and hybrid cloud environments , anywhere in the world . This includes Oracle Autonomous Database , HeatWave MySQL Database Service , Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes , Oracle Cloud VMware Solution , OCI Generative AI service , OCI AI Infrastructure , and OCI Supercluster .
“ With the rapid expansion of our cloud footprint in Saudi Arabia , Oracle is committed to helping the country achieve its goal of developing one of the strongest digital economies in the world ,” said Richard Smith , Executive Vice President and General Manager , EMEA Cloud Infrastructure , Oracle .
With the Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region adding to the existing Oracle Cloud Jeddah Region , customers and partners can gain low-latency access to cloud services to help them derive better value from their data . Customers can also leverage high availability and backup and disaster recovery capabilities across the two regions in Saudi Arabia to enhance business continuity and help address local regulations and requirements for local data hosting .
OCI ’ s unique cloud architecture enables Oracle to launch dedicated cloud regions with hyperscale cloud services inside customer data centres and deploy more public cloud regions faster by starting with an optimal footprint and scaling as needed .
Oracle ’ s distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and flexibility . Oracle ’ s distributed cloud lineup includes :
Public cloud : Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any size of organisation , including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls . See the full list of regions here .
Dedicated cloud : Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centres with OCI Dedicated Region , while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customise the experience using Oracle Alloy .
Hybrid cloud : OCI delivers key cloud services on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer and Compute Cloud @ Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60 countries .
Multicloud : Options including Oracle Database @ Azure , HeatWave MySQL on AWS and Microsoft Azure , Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure , and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allow customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds . p
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