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Information obtained and analyzed by "Arabi Post" on the map of cloud service centers and regions (data centers) in the Middle East and North Africa exposed that the area's nations rely greatly on American companies for cloud services. The information shows the presence of around 31 American centers, the majority of them in Gulf nations, while the variety of centers owned by Chinese business reached about 7.

In the Gulf countries, more than 53% of the cloud infrastructure tracked there is American. Iran, on the other hand, appears to be an extraordinary case among all the area's countries, as it relies completely on a 100% local cloud environment. 89cloud centers across 22 nations 35%American companies' share (31 centers) 53%Gulf dependence on U.S.

Click on any point to see information about the center, consisting of the operating business, its nationality, and the year it was launched. Use the filters to concentrate on a particular nationality, or look for a specific center or country. Source: "Arabi Post" database of cloud service centers in the Middle East and North Africa (89 centers).

Within a few years, cloud service centers have shifted from a "technical option" for lowering server costs into crucial facilities for the state and the economy: e-government websites, payment and banking systems, health and education platforms, and the operation of huge information, artificial intelligence, and more. However the recent Iran war (2026) revealed a new measurement: the cloud itself can be straight and physically targeted, as taken place when Iranian drone strikes harmed Amazon AWS cloud service data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing interruptions and service interruptions.

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The significance of American and foreign companies does not stop at technical competitors or service quality; it extends to digital sovereignty and concerns of control over data for these countries and their different delicate sectors. American business go through U.S. laws regulating legal access to data, such as the CLOUD Act, raising concerns about the limits of judicial ask for data even when it is saved outside the United States.

"CLOUD Act" (March 2018): Area 2713 explicitly obliges communications and computing service companies to preserve and divulge subscriber data within their "belongings, custody, or control, regardless of whether it is located within or outside the United States" validating the point above., as provided by U.S

At the very same time, experts contacted by "Arabi Post" caution of the dangers of concentrating agreements with American cloud service suppliers, and of the effect of "foreign jurisdiction" on privacy and security.

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residents or locals who interact with individuals or organizations in those countries where information centers run by American companies store the information of those nations and their citizens. To comprehend the scope of this threat, it is essential to first examine U.S. federal laws such as FISA Section 702 and the CLOUD Act, which governs U.S.

Although the CLOUD Act grants Washington broad authority to gain access to data stored in data centersthe massive infrastructure used by companies to store and process informationin some cases, under the Act, U.S. authorities may be required to notify the government of the country worried that there is a legal basis compelling access to that data.

The U.S. government might likewise penalize or target any U.S. citizen who takes part in monetary transactions with that country or sends out cash transfers to people there. Abu Al-Saad likewise states that if a dispute were to happen between that nation and Washington, the United States might suspend its information storage services for that nation and justify doing so.

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This would impact all sectors, consisting of financial and banking services. In the context of the security threats connected to countries' dependence on American data centers, another point likewise emergesone that Ibtihal Abu Al-Saad thinks about the most essential and most harmful: the U.S. legal and intelligence tool referred to as "National Security Letters" (NSLs).

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federal intelligence and security companies. Under these letters, U.S. authorities have the ability to compel major innovation companies to hand over sensitive information connected to residents or countries. Washington could, for instance, force Amazon to open data records belonging to users in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, or elsewhere, while "enforcing a strict nondisclosure order that prevents the innovation company from notifying the Bahraini government or the targeted people that this access has taken place.