Amazon Web Services and Saudi artificial intelligence company HUMAIN have expanded their partnership with a commitment to make up to 50 megawatts of computing capacity available in Saudi Arabia’s first AI Zone by 2028.
Announced during the LEAP technology conference in Riyadh, the target provides the clearest timeline yet for the infrastructure project the companies first disclosed in 2025.
The planned capacity will incorporate AWS-designed Trainium chips and Nvidia AI infrastructure. Those systems are intended to support computationally intensive work such as training artificial intelligence models and running inference, the process through which trained models generate answers, predictions or other outputs.
Tanuja Randery, vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at AWS, said: “Our collaboration with HUMAIN gives both local and global customers access to the cutting-edge infrastructure, advanced data capabilities and groundbreaking models they need to innovate and build the future of AI applications.”
HUMAIN and AWS first outlined the proposed AI Zone in May 2025 as part of a joint investment exceeding $5 billion (SAR 18.75 billion). Their original plan covered AI infrastructure, AWS services, workforce training and support for Saudi technology startups.
A subsequent expansion announced in November called for the deployment of as many as 150,000 AI accelerators, including Nvidia GB300 systems and AWS Trainium chips. The latest agreement adds a dated capacity milestone to that wider plan.
AWS Region Moves Toward December Opening
Alongside the HUMAIN agreement, AWS said its first Saudi Arabian cloud infrastructure region remains scheduled to open in December 2026. The region represents a planned investment of more than $5.3 billion (SAR 19.88 billion) and will increase AWS’s global footprint to 40 geographic regions. Its launch would allow companies and public-sector bodies to run applications and store data in AWS facilities located inside the kingdom.
The AWS region and the HUMAIN AI Zone are connected elements of the companies’ Saudi strategy, but they are not described as the same project. A cloud region provides general computing, storage, database and other services across multiple availability zones. The AI Zone is being designed more specifically around accelerated computing and services used to develop and operate AI systems.
AWS said the new region would give customers additional options for keeping data and workloads in Saudi Arabia, an important consideration for government agencies and businesses in regulated industries.
Partnership Extends Beyond Infrastructure
The expanded arrangement also covers software and access to AI models. HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic large language model is expected to become available through Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s managed platform for accessing and developing applications with generative AI models.
HUMAIN Fabric, a data infrastructure component of the company’s HUMAIN ONE enterprise AI platform, is also slated for distribution through AWS Marketplace. Listing the product could give AWS customers a simpler way to purchase and deploy it through existing cloud accounts.
Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, said: “No single layer of the AI stack creates transformation on its own. The opportunity comes from making those layers work as one system. With AWS, we are connecting infrastructure, data and models in ways that give enterprises greater choice in how they build and deploy AI, from AI Zone capacity and HUMAIN Fabric on AWS Marketplace to ALLAM on Amazon Bedrock.”
Saudi Arabia created HUMAIN under its Public Investment Fund in May 2025 to operate across data centers, cloud platforms, AI models and applications. The company is part of the kingdom’s effort to develop technology industries and reduce its economic dependence on oil under Vision 2030.
