The Google Cloud area was officially opened in Dammam on Wednesday by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Abdullah Al-Swaha. Saudi Arabia is now a part of the 39 Google Cloud regions worldwide thanks to the search engine giant's decision. By using cloud computing services, this will promote innovation, quicken change, and assist the expansion of Saudi Arabia's digital economy.
In order to provide its services to public sector institutions, large companies, small and medium-sized companies, and startups in the Kingdom and the Middle East, the ministry said that the Google Cloud region in the Kingdom will help businesses accelerate digital transformation and build the future.
During the event, Al-Swaha emphasised the significance of Google Cloud's investment in the new area, highlighting it as a critical strategic step towards realising the Kingdom's aspirations to become a preeminent regional hub for cutting-edge computing technology. In the public and commercial sectors, it will help to encourage innovative digital business ventures and speed up innovation in artificial intelligence applications and other business models, he added.
The new cloud area in Dammam is a part of the larger global Google Cloud network, which offers cloud services to over 200 countries and regions worldwide and is made up of 118 regions and 39 cloud regions. Businesses in the area stand to gain from the primary controls that enable them to uphold the highest standards of security, accessibility of local data storage capacity, and compliance with regulations, which include particular guidelines for data storage.
