Amazon shares fall 1.96% as AWS expands cloud and AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

  • Amazon Web Services expanded its Saudi Arabia cloud and AI infrastructure plans with HUMAIN.
  • $5.3 billion-plus represents AWS's planned Saudi cloud infrastructure investment for the new Region.
  • AWS remains scheduled to launch the Saudi Arabia Region in December, according to the company.

Amazon.com shares fell 1.96% to $261.21 on Monday as broader equity risk appetite weakened, with the Nasdaq down 0.41%, the S&P 500 down 0.55% and Consumer Discretionary off 0.29%. Amazon Web Services, or AWS (Amazon's cloud computing unit), is expanding in Saudi Arabia through a new cloud Region (a geographic cluster of data centers), deeper cooperation with HUMAIN and additional AI infrastructure. The Region, first announced in March 2024, remains scheduled to launch in December and represents more than $5.3 billion in planned investment, expanding AWS Global Infrastructure to 40 Regions worldwide. AWS and HUMAIN plan to provide up to 50 MW for Saudi Arabia's first AI Zone by 2028, using AWS Trainium chips and NVIDIA's latest AI infrastructure for training and inference. HUMAIN's Arabic LLM (large language model), ALLAM, will launch on Amazon Bedrock, while HUMAIN Fabric will be offered through AWS Marketplace. Abdul Latif Jameel, Almosafer, stc Group and Red Bull Mobile plan to run AI workloads on AWS; stc Group separately entered a strategic collaboration with AWS, and ZainTECH signed a multi-year AWS technology adoption deal. AWS is also targeting training for more than 100,000 Saudi citizens through Amazon Academy, offering free training to up to 10,000 women through a separate program, and building two innovation centers. Rosenblatt analyst Scott Devitt initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $335 target, forecasting AWS growth of 45% by the end of 2026 and annual AWS revenue above $335 billion by 2028. Citizens analyst Andrew Boone reiterated a Market Outperform rating and a $315 forecast, citing growth at OpenAI and Anthropic, rising AI infrastructure demand and limited risk of significant excess server capacity among hyperscalers (large cloud providers).

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