Confluent embraces launch of new AWS Middle East Region in the UAE

Confluent welcomes the launch of the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, which will support the acceleration of digital transformation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The Middle East region of AWS in the UAE now has three Availability Zones (AZs), making it the second region in the Middle East after the AWS Region in Bahrain, which was established in 2019. This expansion offers organizations more options for running applications and providing services to end-users through data centres in the UAE. It also enables secure data storage with reduced latency across the nation.

The collaboration means that organizations across the region can now quickly access Confluent Cloud through AWS Marketplace.

Confluent’s cloud-native offering on AWS is the foundational platform for data in motion, based on Apache Kafka, and it was one of the first data streaming solutions to debut in the Middle East. Customers will be able to influence innovations in a wide range of areas, including the integration of billing and security as well as the powering of rich, digital front-end customer experiences and real-time, back-end operations.

Fred Crehan, Area Vice President, Emerging Markets (EMEA) at Confluent said “Having had a great relationship with AWS for the past few years, we’re excited to be working together to bring this new partnership to the UAE region. With many organizations in the Middle East held back by legacy systems, AWS recognized what we could bring to customers.

Confluent acts as a connective tissue for companies to migrate and offload their data to the cloud, making it much easier for businesses to undertake this critical step in their transformation journey.”

AWS Regions are made up of Availability Zones, which locate equipment in different regions. To support customers’ business continuity, availability zones are spaced apart enough from one another. However, they are close enough to one another to offer low latency for high-availability applications that use numerous Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone is linked by redundant, ultra-low latency networks and has independent power, cooling, and physical security. Customers of AWS who prioritize high availability can increase fault tolerance by designing their applications to operate across multiple Availability Zones.