[YVoyiatzis]

WTF are Amazon’s data centers doung in the UAE? Excuse my ignorance, but why there?

[achille]

  - local data residency & sovereignty
  - latency
  - bandwidth 
  - regulatory climate
  - competition

uae is business friendly

all cloud providers have middle east presence

refineries generate terabytes of sensor data per hour

the population and people there produce and consume a lot of data

[samrus]

Latency

[unsnap_biceps]

I would image data sovereignty is also a big factor.