Saudi Communications Ministry and HUMAIN Sign Agreement to Strengthen Kingdom’s AI Infrastructure
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At a glance
Press release
Official statement
New plan
- AWS said its first cloud infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia remains on track to launch in December 2026.
- AWS and HUMAIN plan to make up to 50 megawatts of capacity available in Saudi Arabia’s first AI Zone by 2028.
- The partnership will bring HUMAIN’s Arabic language model to Amazon Bedrock and offer HUMAIN Fabric through AWS Marketplace.
Saudi Arabia’s push to build domestic computing capacity is gaining a major cloud partner. Amazon Web Services said its first cloud infrastructure region in the kingdom is on track to launch in December 2026.
AWS also announced an expanded collaboration with HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund-owned company and its preferred AI partner. The companies plan to make up to 50 megawatts of capacity available in Saudi Arabia’s first AI Zone by 2028.
Saudi Arabia is home to some of the most ambitious and inventive builders, from startups and enterprises reimagining industries to public sector organizations deploying AI at scale, and the new AWS region in the country will help them to continue to innovate.
That capacity will use AWS Trainium chips and the latest NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Developers, startups and enterprises will be able to run applications and serve users from data centers located in Saudi Arabia. AWS said its regions are designed with sovereignty controls for customers seeking local infrastructure and data options.
HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic large language model will soon become available through Amazon Bedrock. Customers will be able to access Arabic-language generative AI capabilities through AWS’s managed platform. HUMAIN Fabric, an AI-native data infrastructure product and part of the HUMAIN ONE platform, will also be offered through AWS Marketplace.
The launch of our new region and our partnership with HUMAIN will deliver the full-stack cloud and AI infrastructure to help power new industries, create jobs, and accelerate the goals of Vision 2030.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said the new region and partnership would provide cloud and AI infrastructure for new industries, job creation and Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 goals. Communications and Information Technology Minister Abdullah Alswaha said the projects would help the kingdom build computing power for what he called the Intelligence Age.
AWS first announced the region in March 2024. The planned investment exceeds $5.3 billion, or 19.88 billion Saudi riyals, and will expand AWS’s global infrastructure network to 40 regions. An AWS-commissioned IDC report estimates that AI could contribute $130 billion to Saudi Arabia’s economy by 2030.
The launch of AWS’s new region and its expanded partnership with HUMAIN will help accelerate AI innovation, enable new industries, and advance the goals of Saudi Vision 2030.
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Originally published by Asharq Al-Awsat in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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