The UAE's digital capital — a global crossroads bridging East and West with premium connectivity to MENA, South Asia, and Europe.
Dedicated bare metal servers in Dubai with direct access to major cloud providers and premium connectivity to adjacent Middle East and South Asia markets.Explore Features
Dubai is the Middle East's digital capital and a global crossroads, connecting three continents with world-class internet infrastructure. Dubai Internet City and Free Zone designations make it the preferred location for technology companies establishing MENA headquarters.
With direct access to DIX and UAE-IX, low latency to Riyadh (12ms) and Mumbai (20ms), and multiple cloud onramps including AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle, our Dubai ZEC and bare metal solutions are ideal for enterprises serving the MENA region.
Quick answers to common questions about deploying compute, bare metal and cloud connectivity in Dubai.
Zenlayer's Dubai location is in the EUROPE / MIDDLE EAST region. It peers locally via Dubai Internet Exchange (DIX), UAE-IX. Upstream connectivity is provided through Etisalat (e&), du, Tata Communications, NTT.
Zenlayer Cloud Connect supports dedicated Layer 2 paths from Dubai to major hyperscalers. See the Cloud Connect panel on this page for the clouds currently available at this location.
Dubai is connected to the Zenlayer private backbone with deterministic, low-latency paths to other Zenlayer locations. The full latency matrix is published on this page. You can also use Looking Glass on this page to run live PING / MTR / BGP checks.
Bare metal cloud (BMC) servers aren't generally available in Dubai yet. Contact us to scope custom or bulk deployments, or see the Bare Metal documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
Zenlayer Elastic Compute (ZEC) virtual machines aren't available in Dubai yet. Contact us for availability, or see the Elastic Compute documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
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Deploy your infrastructure in Dubai and access the gateway between East and West.