Meeza and Microsoft launch sovereign private cloud in Qatar

Meeza and Microsoft have partnered on a sovereign private cloud offering in Qatar based on Azure Local hosted in Meeza's data centers. Customers get local data residency and can connect workloads to Microsoft's public cloud, while government users get a dedicated route via the government network.

• Built on Azure Local infrastructure hosted in Meeza's M-Vault data centers in Qatar
• Azure Local now scales up to thousands of servers
• Government customers get a dedicated route bypassing the public internet
• Meeza secured a QAR 1.6bn ($438m) loan for 44MW of new data center capacity