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Snowflake has announced the general availability of its AI Data Cloud on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling organisations to unlock AI-powered data insights while meeting performance, governance and data residency requirements.
The UAE launch builds on the deepening partnership between Snowflake and AWS, with Snowflake more than doubling its transaction growth year-on-year on AWS Marketplace to exceed $2 billion in global sales within a calendar year.
The expansion comes as the UAE accelerates its push to embed artificial intelligence across the economy, supported by its National AI Strategy 2031, which prioritises talent development, innovation and resilient digital infrastructure. As enterprises move from experimentation to large-scale AI deployment, demand has grown for secure, governed data environments that can support production-grade AI workloads across sectors.
By deploying the AI Data Cloud on the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, Snowflake brings customers closer to their data, reducing latency, improving performance and enabling compliance with local data residency and regulatory requirements. The move represents the latest milestone in Snowflake’s long-term collaboration with AWS to support enterprise-grade data and AI adoption.
“The combination of secure local infrastructure, strong governance controls, and AI-ready performance is essential as the UAE moves to turn its national AI goals into long-term value,” said Tareq Masoud, Country Manager, UAE, Snowflake. “In our pursuit to consistently deliver and address customer and national needs, our deep collaboration with AWS strengthens that foundation by giving local organisations a powerful way to modernise data platforms, build trusted and secure AI systems, and generate business value and outcomes from their data and AI at scale.”
Strengthening enterprise AI adoption with AWS
The announcement also highlights the scale of Snowflake’s global momentum on AWS. Snowflake has doubled its AWS Marketplace growth year-on-year and has received 14 AWS partner awards, including AWS Partner of the Year recognitions across multiple technology, industry and regional categories.
Through AWS Marketplace, enterprises can more easily access Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, simplifying procurement while accelerating deployment of advanced integrations with AWS services. As organisations scale AI initiatives, Snowflake and AWS are jointly enabling interoperable data architectures designed to support secure, cost-effective innovation.
Key joint capabilities include:
• Catalog Federation between AWS Glue Data Catalog and Snowflake Catalogs – allowing customers to access Apache Iceberg-format data managed by the Snowflake Horizon Catalog directly through AWS Glue Data Catalog. This enables a single access point for Iceberg data across both platforms, reducing duplication, data movement and associated costs.
• Catalog-linked databases from Snowflake to AWS Glue Data Catalog – enabling Snowflake-centric customers to link databases directly to AWS Glue Data Catalog without creating individual externally managed Iceberg tables. This allows automatic discovery and synchronisation, supports read/write access, and includes vended credentials and Amazon S3 Tables to simplify large-scale governance and management.
As enterprises across the UAE and wider region accelerate AI adoption, the availability of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud on the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region provides a local, enterprise-ready foundation for building trusted data platforms and deploying AI at scale.
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