VMware has expanded its cloud services to Bahrain, with the launch of VMware Cloud on AWS in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region in February. The service provides customers in Bahrain with optimised access to AWS services and enables them to move their workloads across VMware cloud environments. This will support organisations in Bahrain with their digitalisation plans and improve their ability to innovate.
The service utilises VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center software on AWS bare metal infrastructure, which enables the secure and scalable running of enterprise workloads on virtual machines and containers. It also includes built-in Kubernetes and access to more than 200 native AWS services, including data, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, to support application modernisation.
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Ahmed Auda, VP, METNA Sub-Region, VMware, said, “Through this collaboration with AWS, we are helping to drive adoption of reliable, more secure and cost-effective cloud computing amongst organisations in Bahrain. Together we are helping to empower organisations to increase their efficiency and agility, while also helping to position them to deploy modern applications, which will in turn support the digital transformation aims of Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030”.
Bahrain’s Economic Development Board (EDB) has been working to attract more investment into its ICT sector as part of its economic diversification plans. In the first three quarters of 2022, the EDB attracted $98 million (BHD37 million) worth of direct investments from 14 international companies in its ICT sector.
