Oracle’s second Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region in Oman, is now live in Ibri City. The new OCI Dedicated Region offers over 200 OCI AI and cloud services, as well as Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, to Oman government entities.
The first OCI region is already live in Muscat, Oman. This cloud infrastructure is in line with Oman’s Vision 2040 framework which envisions a long-term development plan for a cloud-first, centralized infrastructure that would help the government to speed innovation securely and enhance national technical capabilities.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nick Redshaw, SVP, Oracle Technology Cloud, MEA, said, “This marks the completion of Oman’s first hyperscale cloud region designed to help boost public sector innovation and help ensure data sovereignty.” He further said, “The Oman government will now be able to move its business-critical workloads to the cloud, enabling operational efficiency and cost savings while ensuring compliance with the Sultanate’s data sovereignty requirements.”
Elsewhere in the Middle East, Oracle has two UAE cloud regions: UAE East located in Dubai, which launched in September 2020, and UAE Central in Abu Dhabi, which launched in November 2021. The company also has cloud regions in Saudi Arabia, where plans for a third were announced in February 2023.
According to McKinsey & Company, cloud services could deliver value up to US$ 183 billion in the Middle East by 2030. IMARC Group is even more enthusiastic about the future of cloud in the Middle East. It finds that the Middle East public cloud market size reached US$ 38.5 billion in 2024. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach US4 235.7 billion by 2033, exhibiting a Compounded Average Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.86 percent during 2025-2033. The growing demand for specialized platforms that enable organizations to collect, store, analyze, and act upon data from IoT devices effectively is primarily driving the market growth across the country.