Cloud and AI in Saudi Arabia.
Field notes from 13 years of selling and building cloud, data and AI solutions for enterprises in the Kingdom.
Which cloud providers actually run in Saudi Arabia (2026)
Five public clouds run live regions inside Saudi Arabia today: Google Cloud, Oracle, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud and Tencent Cloud. AWS and Microsoft Azure are announced, not live. A dated guide from a cloud seller in Riyadh.
AI in Saudi Arabia: why projects stall between pilot and production
Saudi enterprises run plenty of AI pilots, but few reach production. The blockers are rarely the model: decision speed, scarce engineering talent, data readiness and ownership. Lessons from implementing AI automation and agentic AI in Riyadh.
Data sovereignty in Saudi Arabia: what regulated buyers ask before moving to cloud
Which Saudi rules decide where your data can live in the cloud: the PDPL and its transfer rules, NDMO data classification, NCA cloud controls, CST provider classes and SAMA. Plus the 2026 draft that would require personal data to be stored in the Kingdom.