Oracle has built a second cloud region in Riyadh as part of its US $1.5 billion effort to expand the country's cloud capacity in line with Saudi Vision 2030.

Oracle said that its second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia would launch to accommodate the quickly increasing demand for its AI and cloud services. Public and private sector businesses may now move any kind of workload to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with the support of the new Riyadh cloud region. With OCI, they can access a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications and innovate using data, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

The new cloud region, which is located close to Riyadh, is a component of Oracle's planned $ 1.5 billion initiative to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the Kingdom. 

Along with an upcoming Oracle cloud region in the brand-new city of NEOM, there will be three Oracle cloud regions in total: one in Jeddah, the other in Riyadh. Additionally, Oracle plans to increase the capacity of the 2020 opening Jeddah region.

The Honorable The opening of Oracle's new cloud region in Riyadh, according to Vice Minister of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Haytham Alohali, represents the Kingdom's ongoing efforts to promote the digital economy based on cutting-edge technology and innovation. According to him, this move will boost innovation and encourage the use of AI and cloud computing technologies across a range of industries, greatly enhancing Saudi Arabia's competitiveness both domestically and internationally.

Over the past few years, Oracle Cloud has experienced phenomenal growth in the Middle East, where hundreds of new cloud services and capabilities have been released. Organizations from all throughout the area are still turning to Oracle Cloud to manage their most crucial workloads remotely.

Cherian Varghese, the company's SVP for Technology Software, Middle East, Africa, Turkey, and Levant, explained that the third data center was invested in to meet the region's continuing demand as well as to get ready for future expansion.