Riyadh – Mubasher: Saudi Aramco Development Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, has teamed up with Google Cloud to offer high-performance, low-latency cloud services to enterprise customers in Saudi Arabia.

The kingdom is being added to the global network of Google Cloud Platform regions, as part of a strategic alliance agreement signed between the company and Google Cloud this month, according to a press release on Tuesday.

Google Cloud will establish and operate a new cloud region in Saudi Arabia, while a new company will be formed following all required regulatory clearances to supply cloud solutions and services to enterprise customers, with an emphasis on businesses inside Saudi Arabia.

This new cloud region will allow organisations across the kingdom to grow and scale their offerings while delivering digital products and services faster and more reliably.

The collaboration taps into rapidly expanding cloud services demand in Saudi Arabia, which is forecasted to reach a market opportunity up to $10 billion by 2030.

Google Cloud offers its customers multiple solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI), smart analytics, data management, security, infrastructure and application modernisation.

It delivers these services globally while matching 100% of the energy used to power its operations with renewable energy.