Amazon locks in $5.3 billion Saudi AI buildout

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Amazon locks in $5.3 billion Saudi AI buildout
  • AWS's Saudi Arabia region expands Amazon's global infrastructure to 40 Regions and targets sovereign cloud demand in the Middle East.
  • AWS and HUMAIN plan to provide up to 50 MW in Saudi Arabia's first AI Zone by 2028 using AWS Trainium chips and NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
  • HUMAIN's ALLAM Arabic large language model will be offered through Amazon Bedrock, adding Arabic-language enterprise AI to AWS's platform.
  • The Saudi commitment is part of a broader AWS expansion, with AWS reporting $42.2 billion in Q2 2026 revenue and Amazon reporting $53.1 billion in Q2 cash capex.

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AWS "will be at least double that and very possibly be a trillion dollar annual revenue business for us in time.Andy Jassy
85% of the global IT spend is still on-premisesAndy Jassy

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