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SCCC by stc Saudi Arabia's sovereign hyperscale cloud, built with Alibaba Cloud.

sccc by stc, the Saudi Cloud Computing Company, is stc group's cloud subsidiary and the Kingdom's first and largest hyperscale public cloud. Established in June 2022 as a joint venture bringing together stc group, Alibaba Cloud, eWTP Arabia Capital, SCAI and SITE, it operates two availability zones in Riyadh and offers more than 100 localised cloud products across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, all hosted inside Saudi Arabia.

Headquarters
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Founded
2022
Category
Cloud
WHO THEY ARE

About SCCC by stc.

sccc by stc, the Saudi Cloud Computing Company, is stc group's cloud subsidiary and the Kingdom's first and largest hyperscale public cloud. Established in June 2022 as a joint venture bringing together stc group, Alibaba Cloud, eWTP Arabia Capital, SCAI and SITE, it operates two availability zones in Riyadh and offers more than 100 localised cloud products across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, all hosted inside Saudi Arabia.

The platform delivers Alibaba Cloud technology with Saudi billing, local contracts, round-the-clock in-Kingdom support and alignment with national regulations, making it a natural home for government agencies, financial institutions, healthcare providers and enterprises with data-residency obligations. Managed services, professional services, training and a curated SaaS marketplace complete a sovereign cloud ecosystem, rebranded in September 2025 under the promise to expand beyond the cloud.

Industries served

  • Government
  • Financial services and insurance
  • Healthcare
  • Media and streaming
  • Energy and industrial
  • Tourism and hospitality
LATEST SOLUTIONS

The portfolio, today.

01

Elastic compute and storage

On-demand virtual servers, bare metal instances, auto scaling and encrypted object, block and backup storage, all kept inside Saudi borders with high-availability SLAs across dual Riyadh availability zones.

02

Databases, containers and middleware

Managed ApsaraDB services including RDS, MongoDB and Redis, Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK), serverless containers and messaging such as ApsaraMQ for Kafka, giving teams a portable foundation for cloud-native applications.

03

Security and management

Security Center, Cloud Firewall, Web Application Firewall, Cloud Backup and CloudMonitor deliver end-to-end protection, compliance monitoring and cost control from a single console, with encryption enabled by default.

04

AI, machine learning and analytics

Pre-built AI services, customisable ML pipelines and access to Alibaba Cloud's Qwen models, alongside MaxCompute and DataWorks for large-scale data warehousing and real-time analytics, with public, hybrid or on-premises deployment.

05

Marketplace, migration and managed services

A Saudi-curated SaaS marketplace, plus migration tooling, operations and maintenance management, professional services and training programmes that help organisations move and run workloads with minimal downtime.

AI FOCUS

Sovereign AI services on Saudi-hosted infrastructure

sccc by stc positions AI as a core layer of its sovereign cloud, offering pre-built AI services, customisable machine-learning pipelines and support for deploying custom large language models on infrastructure that never leaves the Kingdom. This lets regulated organisations experiment with and operationalise AI while meeting data-residency and compliance requirements.

Through its partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the platform gives customers access to the Qwen model family and a growing catalogue of AI and analytics products, including MaxCompute and DataWorks, with public cloud, hybrid and on-premises deployment options. Local engineers, a community programme and training courses support adoption across government and enterprise.

  • Access to Alibaba Cloud Qwen models in-Kingdom
  • Customisable ML pipelines and pre-built AI services
  • Custom LLM deployment on sovereign infrastructure
  • MaxCompute and DataWorks for AI-ready data platforms
ALJAMMAZ AI LAYER

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WHAT'S NEW

Recent announcements.

  1. stc group unveils the sccc by stc identity

    The Saudi Cloud Computing Company was rebranded as sccc by stc under the slogan Expand Beyond the Cloud, signalling growth beyond a single-vendor model into a broader Saudi cloud ecosystem with AI-powered services.

  2. Confluent partnership brings data streaming to Saudi Arabia

    sccc by stc joined the Confluent OEM Program as the first managed service provider in Saudi Arabia, enabling enterprises to stream, process and govern data in real time on sovereign infrastructure.

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