Confluent Cloud is available to customers in the United Arab Emirates through Microsoft’s local Azure data centres in the country.
“Data sovereignty and residency is increasingly important to modern digital projects in the region, forcing enterprises to look to their cloud providers to support their compliance efforts,” said Fred Crehan, Area Vice President, Emerging Markets at Confluent. “Now that Confluent Cloud is being locally hosted, we can bring peerless, reliable data streaming to our regional customers and empower them in their digital transformation initiatives in an increasingly hybrid and multi-cloud world.”
Microsoft Azure regions offer Confluent the availability, high performance, low latency, and security it needs to meet customer standards of flexibility, reliability, and disaster recovery. Additionally, because data is stored in-country, Confluent can cater to highly regulated verticals such as government and financial services.
The UAE’s local data centre is the first location Confluent has chosen for its hyperscale platform, alongside the recently launched cloud offering in Qatar via Azure.
Crehan added, “Confluent views the Middle East as a major growth market, and as more and more organisations make the move over to hybrid and multi-cloud models, Confluent Cloud will be there to offer the flexibility and security they need to grow and thrive.”
