AWS, HUMAIN to set up unique Saudi Al zone

AMAZON Web Services (AWS) is significantly accelerating its presence in the Gulf by rolling out AWS AI Factories, a dedicated infrastructure offering designed to meet the rigorous data sovereignty and high-performance computing needs of the region's largest enterprises and governments.

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The launch is strategically underpinned by a major partnership in Saudi Arabia, where AWS is collaborating with HUMAIN, a global Al company backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF).

The collaboration with HUMAIN is set to establish a first-of-its-kind “Al Zone” in Riyadh, representing one of the Middle East's most ambitious technology infrastructure projects.

AWS will deploy and manage up to 150,000 Al accelerators, including the latest NVIDIA GB200/GB300 GPUs and AWS's custom Trainium Al chips, within a purpose-built HUMAIN data centre.

This Al Zone is designed to serve both Saudi Arabia's national Al requirements and the growing global demand for compute, positioning the kingdom as a future hub for Al innovation and service export.

Customers will gain immediate access to core generative Al services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, allowing rapid development and deployment of Al applications without the complexity of managing the underlying hardware.