Oman IaaS Market Size and Forecast by Offering, Deployment Model, Organization Size, Subscription Model, and End User Industry: 2019-2033

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Industry Assessment Overview

Industry Findings: The single strongest country-level force is Oman’s rapid pivot to become a subsea-cable plus on-shore compute hub, which is reframing enterprise sourcing away from distant metros toward local, low-latency capacity (Aug-2025). Ooredoo and Omantel have both moved aggressively into southern nodes — Salalah and Barka — to capture transit and landing-station economics; enterprises in logistics and cloud-native services are now re-architecting for localized ingress/egress and shorter failover windows.

Industry Progression: The clearest recent industry progression is the operationalisation of integrated data-centre + cable landing projects that turn Oman into a regional digital hub: Ooredoo’s Salalah Data Center and Submarine Cable Landing Station opened in Aug-2025, bringing immediate increases in international capacity and lowering transit costs for Asia–Europe flows. That development materially reduces latency for east–west traffic and unlocks new operator and hyperscaler route options.

Industry Player Insights: Among the many providers in this industry, a few include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Ooredoo Oman, and Omantel etc. This reflects a supplier mix where global hyperscalers meet deep local telco capability: Ooredoo’s multi-site Tier-3 investments (Aug-2025) and Omantel’s Salalah DC activity show how operators are creating sovereign on-ramps and wholesale capacity; the result is stronger local interconnection, faster enterprise cloud on-ramp, and more attractive latency SLAs for regional customers.