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For its part, the U.S. Department of Justice describes that the CLOUD Act has actually allowed bilateral executive contracts to assist in access to data in cases including "major criminal offenses," within safeguards to secure rights. By contrast, suppliers such as AWS provide a protective analysis concerning personal privacy, with Amazon stating there is "no automated access to data," and stating that it has not disclosed the content of government/institutional clients stored outside the United States to the U.S.

Around 35% of cloud service centers in the area belong to American companies, totaling 31 centers, while Chinese-owned centers account for about 8%, with 7 centers. Iran, meanwhile, relies totally on 4 domestic business, providing it 100% local cloud facilities. Overall, 42% of the region's cloud services are provided by regional or numerous international companies.

Overall, every Gulf nation has a U.S. cloud existence. Israel relies 100% on American suppliers, consisting of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle. Iran: The cloud environment is efficiently localized. The research clearly discovered that the Iranian state has, for many years, built an facilities that keeps vital services operating domestically even if global connectivity is cut off through the National Details Network (NIN).

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sanctions. More than half of the cloud implementations in the region (51%) were introduced after 2020, with 46 centers out of an overall of 89 established during that period. 89 centers each citizenship's share of total existences Variety of presences/centers in the area Overall cloud presences per nation Declared service type/sector Program the comprehensive table for all centers (89 centers) #CountryLocationCenter nameOperatorNationalityOwnerYearClassificationCoverageAZ The examination concentrated on studying all cloud service centers in the Middle East and North Africa area, across their 3 classifications in terms of size and capability to provide services: All hyperscaler centers are operated by global companies such as AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle, the majority of which are situated in the Gulf states and "Israel." Other countries keep their information in local government information centers or regional telecom-company information centers, which fall within the 2nd and 3rd tiers of the classifications.

In cases of dispute or sanctionsas in Syria and Yemenbarriers boost due to the fact that of compliance constraints and damage to infrastructure. Cloud computing services are a design that allows "on-demand" access to shared computing resources (networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal administrative effort.

, with separation in power, cooling, physical security, and low-latency network connectivity. This, for example, is one factor behind the race by information centers and AI to develop an existence in the Gulf and provide services there.

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This is the reasoning behind designing accessibility zones within an area, or throughout several areas when laws permit. The kind of cloud service utilize depends on each country's policy and its data category, but the most common patterns in the general public sector include: individual data, documents, residency records. taxes, custom-mades, and federal government procurement.

the Web of Things, noticing, traffic, energy/water. frequently greatly limited and separated, or special/sovereign environments are built for it depending on classification level of sensitivity. This is where the importance of implementation designs (private/hybrid cloud)ends up being clear: many governments tend toward a hybrid approachpartly on a public cloud for less delicate work, and partly on a private/sovereign cloud for more delicate ones. The RUSI research institute says that the targeting of information centers in the Gulf on March 1, 2026 developed international doubts about the resilience, sovereignty, security, and fragility of these centers, keeping in mind that information centers may be treated as tactical properties and "crucial facilities,"specifically if they are believed to support defense/intelligence abilities along with civilian services. The threat is not just"losing files,"however digitally disabling and paralyzing states. It can be summed up in 5 points: Crucial service interruptions (Availability Shock): If banks, payments, civil service platforms, or major companies depend on the affected area, the disturbance rapidly affects the public and the economy. RUSI pointed to wider interruption to monetary and customer services after the Gulf strikes. Fragility in the face of non-cloud traffic jams: Even if information centers are not bombed, submarine cables and internationalconnectivity can cause severe congestion/degradation in cloud services. Example: cuts to cable televisions in the Red Sea affected Azure paths and increased latency in South Asia and the Gulf. The cloud services market represents a huge global market, and costs on it is gradually increasing year after year with the advancement and expansion of expert system services. Regionally, Gartner, the research, consulting, and infotech company, anticipates IT costs in the Middle East and North Africa to reach 169 billion dollars in 2026, and specifies that" information center systems"are the fastest-growing market, estimated at 12.984 billion dollars in 2026. McKinsey, on the other hand, describes public cloud centers in the Middle East as a"multibillion-dollar opportunity" connected to digital improvement and onethat is highly scalable. This is either since they vary consumption-based contracts, structure agreements, or part of wider procurement portfolios (digital change)that are not publicly made a list of. The following can be identified: According to a news report released by Arab News in 2015, the value of government agreements in the ICT(Details and Communications Technology)sector reached SAR 38 billion in 2024(around US$ 10.13 billion), with a focus on cloud computing and expert system as concerns. In 2024, Amazon revealed the building and construction of 2 cloud regions in Saudi Arabia at a cost going beyond US$ 5.3 billion. In the same year, Oracle likewise revealed the launch of a second public cloud area in Saudi Arabia to "reinforce the AI economy,"with an investment of US$ 1.5 billion. In March 2025, the Abu Dhabi federal government revealed its goal of automating 100 %of government operations, supported by an investment of as much as AED 13 billion(US$ 3.54 billion)in digital facilities under the Digital Method 20252027, along with sovereign cloud agreements with Microsoft and Core42. In November 2025, the state-owned business qnbn announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to supply cloud computing services aimed at"speeding up digital change and artificial intelligence,"though the contract's value was not divulged.