Ooredoo has signed a landmark agreement with Oracle to deploy Oracle Alloy, establishing one of the region’s first fully sovereign cloud and AI platforms delivered entirely from within Qatar. The move positions Ooredoo as a leading sovereign cloud provider for highly regulated industries across the country.
According to Ooredoo, Oracle Alloy delivers the full capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while granting complete local control over data, governance, and operations—ensuring workloads remain subject to Qatari laws and security frameworks. The sovereign platform is designed for government ministries, banks, energy companies, and healthcare institutions requiring strict compliance and in-country processing.
The deployment will be hosted in Ooredoo’s national data centers, providing private, low-latency cloud infrastructure with built-in AI capabilities and GPU-accelerated compute. This enables support for modern, high-performance, and AI-intensive workloads across Qatar’s public and private sectors.
Ooredoo Qatar’s Chief Business Officer Thani Ali A Al-Malki described the partnership as a major milestone in Ooredoo’s ambition to become Qatar’s leading sovereign cloud and AI solutions provider. He said the initiative reinforces the company’s role in building a future-ready digital ecosystem aligned with national priorities.
The project strongly supports Qatar’s emphasis on data sovereignty — the principle that locally collected or processed data must remain governed by domestic regulations. It also advances the objectives of Qatar National Vision 2030, particularly in digital infrastructure, human development, and economic diversification.
The agreement builds on the companies’ 2024 collaboration, which upgraded Ooredoo’s Oracle Database estate to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer deployed within Ooredoo’s data center. Oracle has recently expanded its sovereign cloud footprint across the region, including work with e& enterprise on a hyperscale platform in the UAE.
By launching Oracle Alloy in Qatar, Ooredoo aims to meet accelerating demand for secure, compliant cloud services that keep all data and operations entirely inside national borders—an area of growing strategic importance for governments and enterprises across the Middle East.
