Databricks has announced the availability of Databricks on Google Cloud for customers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This local presence enables organizations throughout the Kingdom to build and scale high-quality AI apps and agents on their enterprise data with speed, security and governance.
This launch deepens Databricks’ commitment to the Kingdom following the opening of its Riyadh office in December 2024 and a $300 million investment to help local customers accelerate data and AI transformation.
Empowering enterprises across KSA with data intelligence and agentic AI
Many enterprises in KSA face fragmented data systems, siloed analytics and growing pressure to deliver measurable AI-driven business impact while complying with local regulations. These challenges slow innovation and increase complexity. To compete, businesses need a governed platform that can accelerate AI adoption, handle massive data volumes, and integrate seamlessly across clouds.
Databricks addresses these concerns by providing a multi-cloud data and AI platform that helps customers drive innovation, increase revenue, lower costs and reduce risk. In the coming months, customers in KSA will be able to leverage Databricks’ flagship AI product, Agent Bricks, and natively access the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s Gemini family of models and Meta Llama. With Unity Catalog as the centralized governance layer, customers can securely discover, manage, and share all of their data and AI assets at scale.
Key benefits of customers running on Databricks on Google Cloud in KSA include:
- Unified, Governed AI Infrastructure: Deploy Databricks on Google Cloud to provide secure, AI-optimized infrastructure to build trusted data and AI applications.
- Dynamic Scalability and Performance: Scale workloads seamlessly across open standards while minimizing vendor lock-in and optimizing performance.
- Robust Security and Compliance: Databricks leverages Google Cloud’s integrated Identity and Access Management ( IAM), Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) and encryption capabilities to help ensure strong security and compliance while integrating with Google Cloud’s analytics, AI and business intelligence (BI) capabilities.
- Cost Efficiency and Value: Combining Google Cloud’s flexible pay-as-you-go pricing with Databricks’ seamless integration helps customers lower total cost of ownership, simplify operations, and speed innovation to market.
- Open, Flexible and Interoperable: Databricks is built on open formats, open standards and an open data catalog with zero lock-in and zero-copy data sharing and is available across all major clouds.
“Enterprises across the Kingdom are looking for ways to deploy high-quality AI agents while maintaining data governance and security,” said Rory Patterson, Chief of Staff to the CEO and VP of Corporate Operations at Databricks. “This launch reinforces our commitment to Saudi Arabia and our mission to help customers unlock trusted AI on their enterprise data, driving new levels of growth and innovation.”
“Partnering with Google Cloud helps us bring the power of the Data Intelligence Platform to our local customers, “ said Yannis Daubin, VP, SEMEA, Databricks. “We look forward to accelerating our multi-cloud strategy in the Kingdom in the months ahead, providing customers with zero lock-in, flexibility and choice for scaling their AI strategies.”
“Our partnership with Databricks will bring advanced data and AI capabilities to businesses in KSA,” said Bader Almadi, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Country Manager for Google Cloud. “With Databricks now available on Google Cloud infrastructure, customers can securely build and scale data and AI workloads with enterprise-grade scale, security, and performance.”
