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Cloud, DevOps and Data Engineering in Riyadh

QuantumBlock delivers cloud migration services for Riyadh companies, delivered from Dubai with on-site sprints in Riyadh for cut-overs. NCA ECC controls require in-Kingdom data residency and failover for regulated workloads, so we migrate onto Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah, STC Cloud or HUMAIN infrastructure, and build data platforms leaders actually trust.

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Cloud, DevOps and Data Engineering in Riyadh

This page covers Cloud, DevOps and Data Engineering for companies in Riyadh. For the full service, see Cloud, DevOps and Data Engineering.

The cost of getting this wrong

What getting Cloud, DevOps and Data Engineering wrong costs you

The most common cloud mistake in Riyadh is a lift and shift into a region that was never chosen, only defaulted to. It works in the demo, and then either the bill or the regulator asks the real question. NCA ECC controls expect in-Kingdom data residency, disaster recovery and an exit strategy for many regulated workloads, and a Saudi company that discovers this after migrating twice, once to the cloud and again into the right region, has paid for the lesson the expensive way.

The second cost shows up on the invoice. Servers copied one for one into the cloud are sized for a peak that happens twice a year and now run, and bill, all month. Nobody owns the number, so it keeps growing quietly while the Year of AI push adds pressure to launch new workloads on top of an already inflated bill.

The third failure is in the data itself. A Riyadh company invests in a warehouse and a set of dashboards, and within months three reports show three different revenue figures because each one defines revenue its own way. With PIF's HUMAIN programme adding 6 GW of new in-Kingdom data centre capacity, the sovereign hosting options are only going to get more crowded, and a data platform nobody trusts is an expensive way to sit out that growth.

A different way to buy engineering

How we deliver Cloud, DevOps and Data Engineering differently

Our cloud migration work for Riyadh starts with the same baseline as anywhere else: an inventory of every server, database, integration and scheduled job, and a record of exactly what you pay today. Then we build a landing zone in your chosen in-Kingdom region, with accounts, networks, identity, encryption and logging written as code, and CI/CD pipelines so every deployment happens the same way. Only then does anything move, in small waves with the least critical systems first, each with a tested rollback plan.

Delivery is led from Dubai, with on-site sprints in Riyadh for the cut-over windows and stakeholder sign-off that need people in a room rather than a call. For NCA-regulated workloads, we build on Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah or STC Cloud, with disaster recovery kept inside the Kingdom as the controls require, and we track HUMAIN's growing sovereign capacity as another option as it comes online. On the data side, we build platforms on Spark, Databricks, BigQuery or Kafka that pull from your operational systems and define each business metric once, so Power BI dashboards finally agree with each other.

Fixed scope first, a demo every week, and you own all of the code.

How we deliver Cloud, DevOps and Data Engineering differently

We are honest that we do not have a Riyadh office yet: the entity behind the work is our Dubai registration, and the on-site time is planned sprints rather than a permanent local team. What is not negotiable is the rollback plan for every wave and the runbook you get at the end.

Riyadh at a glance

Regulator: Saudi PDPL fully enforceable since September 2024; NCA ECC controls require in-Kingdom data residency and failover source
HUMAIN: PIF's HUMAIN plans 6 GW of data centres and runs ALLaM and HUMAIN Chat source
Market: KSA IT services growing about 18 percent a year toward USD 45.8 billion by 2030 source
Year of AI: Saudi Arabia declared 2026 the Year of AI with SDAIA guidelines to unify national efforts source
Where your data can live: Oracle Cloud Riyadh and JeddahGoogle Cloud me-central2 (Dammam)AWS Middle East (Bahrain) with in-Kingdom optionsSTC Cloud and HUMAIN for sovereign workloads

How it works

How the engagement runs, week by week

Week 1
Inventory, dependencies, cost baseline
We map every server, database, integration and scheduled job, find the dependencies nobody wrote down, and record what you pay today so every later decision has a number next to it.
Weeks 2 to 3
Landing zone, security, CI/CD
Accounts, networks, identity, encryption and logging are built as code in your chosen UAE or KSA region, with pipelines that deploy the same way every time and a security baseline in place before any data moves.
Weeks 4 to 6
Migrate in waves with rollback
Workloads move in small waves, least critical first, each with a tested rollback plan and a cut-over window agreed with your team. Nothing moves in one big weekend.
Week 7
Optimise cost and hand over runbooks
We right-size what was over-provisioned, set budgets and alerts, and hand over runbooks, diagrams and access so your team can operate the platform without us.

Proof

A result we can show you

Retail and services loyalty

LoyalsClub: a multi-business loyalty platform built and launched from Dubai

LoyalsClub

2.4x lifetime spend

Value of a returning customer

Owner-portal transaction ledger for a Dubai barbershop, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026: 21 of 70 enrolled customers returned at least once and averaged AED 773 lifetime spend versus AED 320 for one-time customers.

51% of tracked revenue

Revenue concentration in repeat customers

Same ledger and period: the returning 30% of enrolled customers produced 51% of the AED 31,936 in tracked revenue, which was staff-entered rather than POS-verified.

70 customers enrolled, 107 scanned visits

Enrollment and scanned visits

Owner-portal enrollment and scan counts, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026.

4.9 average from 23 reviewers, 29 reviews

In-app customer rating

In-app review widget, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026. This is an in-app rating, not a Google review.

C# / .NET 10 on ASP.NET Core
PostgreSQL and EF Core
Terraform and Terragrunt on AWS (UAE region)
Flutter (iOS and Android, customer and staff apps)
Nuxt 4 owner portal and public site
Stripe subscriptions and webhooks
Cloudflare DNS and edge

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Fit

Who this is for

A Riyadh company still running on its own servers, facing a hardware refresh or a customer asking about resilience.
A Saudi company already in the cloud, often in a foreign region, whose data needs to move in-Kingdom under NCA ECC controls.
An operations or finance leader in Riyadh who wants one trusted set of numbers instead of competing spreadsheets and dashboards.
Not for you if you need a 24/7 on-site infrastructure team or hardware support in your Riyadh server room. We work on cloud and code, not on racks.

Deliverables

What you get

Whether the engagement is a migration, a DevOps setup or a data platform, you keep:

A full inventory of workloads, dependencies and current costs, with a migration plan in waves.
A landing zone in an in-Kingdom or UAE region, built as code, with identity, networking, encryption and logging.
CI/CD pipelines for your applications and infrastructure, with environments for testing and production.
Workloads migrated with a rollback plan per wave and a record of every cut-over.
Where data is in scope, pipelines and a data model that define each business metric once, with dashboards on top.
Runbooks, architecture diagrams and all accounts in your name, plus optional managed DevOps from Dubai.

AWS me-central-1
Azure UAE North
Google me-central2
Oracle Riyadh and Jeddah
Kubernetes
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Databricks
Spark
BigQuery
Kafka
Power BI
Elasticsearch

2 weeks · fixed scope

AI Opportunity Audit

A ranked map of what to automate first, with effort and payback for each item.

Process interviews with 3 to 6 of your teams
Data and systems inventory
Ranked automation backlog with effort and payback
A build plan for the first pilot

Fixed quote within 2 business days.

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Why it is safe to start

What you get before you pay anything big

Reply within one business hour

On WhatsApp, Sunday to Friday, 09:00 to 18:00 Gulf time, and within 24 hours otherwise. From an engineer, never a bot.

NDA within 24 hours

Send your brief under NDA before you tell us anything sensitive. Fixed quote within 2 business days.

You own everything

Code, infrastructure, accounts and IP are yours from day one. No lock-in, no retained access.

Data stays in the region

UAE or KSA cloud regions when you need them (AWS me-central-1, Azure UAE North, Google me-central2, Oracle Riyadh and Jeddah). Built for UAE PDPL and Saudi PDPL.

Dubai-registered, Dubai-managed

QuantumBlock Solutions L.L.C-FZ, Meydan Free Zone licence 2424573.01. A licensed company you can meet, not a reseller.

Fixed scope first

Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope, fixed-timeline first project so you can judge us on delivery before committing further.

We start a limited number of new engagements each quarter so every project gets a senior engineer from day one. If your timeline is this quarter, message us this week.

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Questions buyers ask us

Which cloud region fits an NCA-regulated Riyadh workload?

Usually Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah or STC Cloud, both in-Kingdom, with Google's Dammam region or AWS in Bahrain as options with in-Kingdom controls attached. The right choice depends on your existing licences and which NCA ECC tier your workload sits in.

Do you have engineers based in Riyadh for the migration?

No. The migration is planned and led from our Dubai office and executed by our Yerevan engineers, with on-site sprints in Riyadh for the cut-over windows and stakeholder sign-off that genuinely need people in the room.

Can data stay inside Saudi Arabia for NCA compliance?

Yes. We build on in-Kingdom regions such as Oracle Riyadh and Jeddah or STC Cloud, with disaster recovery inside the Kingdom as NCA ECC controls require, and document the setup for your compliance file.

How does the huge PIF data centre build-out affect a Riyadh migration?

PIF's HUMAIN programme is adding significant in-Kingdom capacity, which is widening the sovereign hosting options available to Saudi companies beyond the traditional hyperscalers, and we track it as part of choosing your target region.

What does cloud migration cost for a Riyadh company?

We do not publish prices. After a short inventory call you get a fixed quote within 2 business days. Saudi IT services are growing about 18 percent a year, and most migration budgets scale with the workload count, not the city.

How do you avoid downtime during a Riyadh cut-over?

By migrating in small waves with data replicated ahead of time, a tested rollback plan for each wave, and cut-overs scheduled in agreed low-traffic windows, with our team on-site in Riyadh for the ones that matter most.

Do you provide managed DevOps after migration for a Saudi client?

Yes. We can run the platform with monitoring, patching, cost reviews and on-call support from Dubai, or hand it to your team with runbooks and training once they are ready.

Does the Year of AI push change what a data platform needs to support?

Often, yes. Saudi Arabia declared 2026 the Year of AI, and more Riyadh clients now want the data platform to feed an agent or an assistant, not only a dashboard, so we design the pipeline with that consumer in mind from the start.