Cloud Roadmap
Building the Kingdom’s cloud, in the Kingdom.
Sahara Net has operated Saudi Arabia’s cloud infrastructure since 1998. This is where we are taking it next.
All cloud roadmap will be hosted and operated inside Saudi Arabia, on infrastructure we own — under CST licence RC21-9 and aligned to the NCA Cloud Cybersecurity Controls.
How we build
We develop our cloud portfolio through three routes, and we say plainly which is which:
In-house engineering
Elastic Cloud and the Sahara Tools family are built by our own teams.
Strategic partnerships
Including our colocation partnership with center3, announced November 2025.
White-labelled platforms
Operated by Sahara inside our own data centres, on our own SLA.
Infrastructure (IaaS)
| Service | What it gives you | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerated compute (GPU) | GPU instances for AI/ML training and inference, hosted in-Kingdom so regulated data never leaves Saudi Arabia. | H2 2026 |
| Bare metal compute | Single-tenant physical servers for workloads that cannot share a hypervisor — licensing, latency or compliance driven. | H2 2026 |
| Elastic file storage | Shared POSIX file systems mountable across many instances. | H1 2026 |
Platform (PaaS)
| Service | What it gives you | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes | Container orchestration with a managed control plane, autoscaling and an in-Kingdom registry. | H1 2026 |
| Relational Database Service | Managed MySQL / PostgreSQL — automated backup, patching and failover. | H1 2026 |
| NoSQL database service | Managed document and key-value stores. | H2 2026 |
| Data warehousing | Petabyte-scale analytical warehouse for BI workloads. | H2 2026 |
| Managed analytics | Managed query and processing engines, with no cluster administration. | H2 2026 |
| Data visualisation & reporting | Dashboards and reporting over data that stays inside the Kingdom. | H2 2026 |
| Managed ML frameworks | Hosted training and serving for standard ML frameworks. | 2027 |
| AutoML | Model training for teams without a data-science function. | 2027 |
| Data labelling & annotation | Human-in-the-loop labelling, with Arabic-language support. | 2027 |
| IoT device security | Device identity, attestation and policy enforcement at the edge. | 2027 |
| Modelling & architecture tooling | UML and architecture design tooling. | 2027 |
Software (SaaS)
| Service | What it gives you | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Identity & Access Management | In-Kingdom IAM — SSO, MFA and conditional access. | H1 2026 |
| Encryption & key management | Customer-managed keys with Saudi-resident key material. | H1 2026 |
| Endpoint protection | Managed endpoint security and antivirus. | H1 2026 |
| Vulnerability management | Continuous scanning, prioritisation and remediation tracking. | H2 2026 |
| Data loss prevention | Content inspection and egress control. | H2 2026 |
| Business continuity planning | Managed BCP tooling, runbooks and drill scheduling. | H2 2026 |
| Online meetings & video conferencing | In-Kingdom conferencing for organisations that cannot use offshore platforms. | H2 2026 |
| Document collaboration & sharing | Sovereign document collaboration with an Arabic-first experience. | H2 2026 |
| CRM | Customer relationship management, hosted and supported locally. | 2027 |
| ERP | Enterprise resource planning for the Saudi market. | 2027 |
| Learning Management System | LMS for education and corporate training, Arabic-first. | 2027 |
Three commitments
Data sovereignty
Every service above runs in Saudi data centres we operate. Your data does not leave the Kingdom.
Arabic first
New services ship with an Arabic interface, Arabic documentation and Arabic support — not as a translation phase after launch.
Regulatory alignment
Each release is assessed against CST Cloud Computing Provisioning Regulations and NCA Cloud Cybersecurity Controls before general availability.
Want to influence what we build next?
Enterprise customers can join our roadmap review.
Delivery windows are indicative and reviewed quarterly. This roadmap does not constitute a contractual commitment.