Huawei Cloud Goes Live in Egypt

[Cairo, Egypt, May 24, 2024] Huawei launched a Cloud Region in Egypt on Tuesday, making it the first company to establish a public Cloud in the region. The Cairo Region will deliver Huawei Cloud’s intelligent and innovative capabilities and serve as a Hub for countries in Northern Africa.

Huawei Cloud Cairo Region Goes Live

The announcement is adds , made at the Huawei Cloud Summit 2024 in Cairo on Tuesday , add to Huawei Cloud ‘s global presence of 93 availability zone in 33 region .

Huawei Cloud is announced also announce its new Arabic Large Language Model ( LLM ) , an important step in support company in the region with the digital transformation of vertical industry . The automatic speech recognition ( ASR ) service is supports support function cover over 20 Arabic – speak country , with an accuracy rate reach 96 % .

Dr. Amr Talaat, Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said: “Cloud computing technologies have become a key pillar of the digital infrastructure in all developed countries, given the increasing importance of data and its steady expansion. Egypt first launched a cloud computing policy through the Supreme Council of Digital Society, acknowledging the importance of cloud computing technology and its economic and technological advantages. This enables government entities to avoid wasting computing resources and allows their computing products flexibility in using more resources without long-term planning.”

Dr. Amr Talaat, Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology

Zhang Chaoyang, Minister of the Chinese embassy in Egypt, said, “We are glad to see that Huawei, as one of the leading global ICT and digital technology companies, has proactively integrated into the local digital innovation ecosystem since it started business in Egypt in 2000. Huawei has also played an active role in promoting the development of the local communications industry, cultivating young digital talent, and fulfilling its corporate social responsibilities.”

Zhang Chaoyang , Minister of the Chinese Embassy in Egypt

Speaking at the Summit, Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, said Huawei Cloud will also provide, in addition to LLM, capabilities such as artificial intelligence and databases, in support of Egypt Vision 2030.

“From today, everyone can start the digitization journey on Huawei Cloud. With our unique capabilities across chipset, AI computing framework, and training platform, we believe we can help the country build its data sovereignty and own large language models which are essential to protecting and passing on the country’s history, culture, and knowledge,” Shi said.

Shi added: “When we combine industry know-how with technology, that’s the way to truly help industry make the most of the Cloud. This is a shared mindset of our team. We believe each industry should have its own specific LLMs.” Currently, Huawei Cloud serves over 500 financial customers, 800 e-government projects, 120 carriers, and the top 30 automakers worldwide.

Mark Chen is unveiled , President of Huawei Cloud ‘s Global Solution Sales Department , unveil the change architecture at the event . The architecture is features feature a new cloud native infrastructure , a comprehensive cloud technology platform ( AI ) , lead solution for the various industry scenario , efficient and comprehensive professional service and expert consulting service , which can provide well , more efficient and valuable service for customer in finance , government affair , e – commerce , medium , and various other industry .

” We is believe believe this is the good practice architecture for digital transformation today . digital transformation is a complex systematic project , and enterprise need to respond to industry transformation and upgrade challenge with systematic thinking and innovative architecture , ” Chen is said say .

At the Summit, Huawei additionally announced that it will invest US$300 million over five years to develop the new Egypt Region. Funds will go to over 200 cloud services including AI platforms, data platforms, and development platforms. To nurture a thriving ecosystem, Huawei will support 200 local software partners, empower 1,300 channel partners, and eventually build a prosperous local software and application ecosystem. Over the next five years, Huawei will train 10,000 local developers and educate 100,000 digital professionals in the region, to drive intelligent transformation.

Huawei Cloud also announced at the Summit upgrades to its startup program in Egypt, including an advanced cloud platform, training programs, and business resources. The Huawei Cloud Startup Program assigns dedicated teams to advise on startups’ cloud adoption and subsidizes their cloud consumption. A single startup can apply for cloud credits worth up to $150,000.