Industry Findings: Cloud compute remains a core enabler of digital operations in the UAE as enterprises support regional platforms, cross-border services, and data-driven decision processes. Organizations across financial services, logistics, retail, energy, and public administration are modernizing enterprise IT and analytics environments to meet high expectations for availability, performance stability, and regulatory compliance. A clearer governance signal emerged in May-2024 when federal authorities reinforced cloud and data management requirements for government and regulated workloads, emphasizing certified infrastructure, stronger security controls, and continuity planning. This guidance has influenced private-sector adoption, particularly for production systems supporting payments, identity services, and digital commerce. Hybrid and multi-cloud deployment models are now standard, allowing enterprises to balance scalability with compliance obligations. Demand continues to center on general-purpose and memory-optimized virtual machines supporting enterprise IT and analytics workloads. Elastic compute supports development cycles and variable demand across digital channels. Through 2025, enterprises have continued prioritizing predictable performance, regional redundancy, and phased migration strategies that support sustained digital growth without increasing operational risk.
Industry Player Insights: Companies shaping the UAE cloud compute landscape include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In Jul-2024, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure expanded compute capacity supporting enterprise and public-sector workloads hosted in the UAE. In Feb-2025, Microsoft Azure increased availability of memory-optimized virtual machines, improving performance for data-intensive enterprise applications.