Eleven universities, 10,000 women, two innovation centres and an Amazon Academy target above 100,000 people. The megawatts get the headline; the cohorts determine how fast the region fills.
Read the enterprise announcements together and the same structure appears repeatedly: global vendors renting Saudi delivery capacity. The scarce input is not capacity or product — it is people who can execute a migration.
A six-year strategic collaboration agreement announced in Riyadh on 1 September commits Accenture and AWS to migrating workloads and deploying AI across the region — three months before the Saudi cloud region opens.