The ongoing conflict between the US and Iran has not deterred AWS's plans to open a cloud infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia this year, it announced Monday, despite the fact that it has to yet bring two other data-center complexes back online after they were attacked.

First announced in 2024, the region will offer three availability zones when it comes online this December, AWS said in a press release. It will be the company's first infrastructure complex in the country, and AWS's fourth computing region in the greater Middle East.

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