Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, is set to reinforce its partnership with AWS by providing best-in-class cybersecurity strategies and practices for the cloud leader’s forthcoming data centers in the United Arab Emirates. The step is aimed at further enhancing operations and innovations and protecting the data of communities and organizations across the country and throughout the wider Middle East and North Africa region. With Trend Micro security solutions and AWS services, customers in the UAE will be able to safely migrate to the cloud with the added assurance that they will remain compliant with local and international regulations.

“Cybersecurity has become an increasingly important component of a country’s stability and growth, as organizations navigate through an accelerated hybrid world,” said Majd Sinan, Country Manager, Trend Micro UAE.

As organizations increase their reliance on cloud operations, the establishment of the AWS data center will enable firms to use state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions to protect cloud migration and workloads. Trend Micro’s Cloud One – a security-service platform for cloud builders – provides workload, network, and file storage protection measures, as well as cloud security and compliance management. Organizations can also protect against, detect, and respond to network attacks, vulnerabilities, malware, ransomware, and unauthorized system changes.

AWS estimates that its projected spending on the construction and operation of the new Region will support an average of nearly 6,000 full-time jobs annually at external vendors, with a planned $5 billion (AED 20 billion) investment in the local economy through 2036.

Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS said, “with the launch of the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, we are making it possible for even more customers to harness the power of the cloud to drive innovation across the UAE, while also investing in the local economy through job creation, training for highly sought-after technology skills, and education resources to further advance the UAE’s strategic priorities.”

“The opening of the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is a significant milestone for Abu Dhabi and the UAE as a whole, reflecting our efforts to generate opportunities for all,” said His Excellency Mohamed Ali Al Shorafa, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development.

The AWS Middle East (UAE) Region consists of three Availability Zones and joins the existing AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region, which opened in July 2019. Availability Zones are located far enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity, but near enough to provide low latency for high-availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks.

Al Ghurair Investments, Al Tayer Group, Aramex, Axiom Telecom, Flydubai, Gulf News, and OSN are among the enterprises that have chosen AWS.