Do you work on site in Abu Dhabi?

Yes. Our engineers work at customer sites across Abu Dhabi and remotely from Dubai, and most engagements combine the two. Every engagement is contracted with Mamluk LLC-FZ, which is registered in Meydan Free Zone, Dubai.

Can the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine run inside Abu Dhabi?

Yes. BKE is installed on the customer's own servers, in the customer's own data centre, so the cluster and the data it holds stay wherever that hardware is. The requirements for each node are published in full.

BKE is licensed at a flat annual fee per cluster, whatever the number of nodes, cores or memory. The figure and a worked example are on the BKE pricing page , and a 14-day trial can be started from the Mamluk console without a sales call.

We are a healthcare provider licensed by the Department of Health. Can we use you?

Yes. Health data must be stored and processed in the UAE, and a platform on your own servers keeps it there. We design and operate the platform; your ADHICS assessment remains your own, and we provide the evidence about the platform that the assessment requires.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Kubernetes and enterprise architecture in Abu Dhabi.

We work with organisations in Abu Dhabi at their own sites and remotely from Dubai, under the federal rules that apply across the UAE and the emirate's own rules for healthcare and for ADGM.

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The market

A healthcare standard, and a free zone with its own law.

Abu Dhabi adds two sets of rules that matter to a platform decision. The Department of Health sets an information and cyber security standard, ADHICS, for every healthcare entity it licenses. Abu Dhabi Global Market has its own data protection regulations, administered by its own Office of Data Protection.

Healthcare is the sector in which the location of a workload is most tightly governed in the UAE. Federal law already requires health data to be stored and processed in the country, and ADHICS adds the controls a licensed entity is audited against.

An on-premise platform answers the location question before the audit asks it. BKE runs on the entity's own servers, and our managed service operates it there without the data leaving the building.

What we do in Abu Dhabi

Five services and one distribution, delivered on site and remotely.

Our engineers work at customer sites in Abu Dhabi and remotely from Dubai. Every engagement is contracted with Mamluk LLC-FZ, and the same engineers deliver every service below.

Enterprise Architecture as a Service

A senior architect on call, paid for by the day.

Kubernetes Consulting

Strategy, architecture and platform design for Kubernetes done properly.

Kubernetes Development

Custom operators, charts, controllers and the long maintenance tail.

Kubernetes Support

A Kubernetes support contract with named engineers and a defined response time.

Managed Kubernetes on Premise

A fully managed Kubernetes practice running inside your own data centre, on BKE.

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine

The only enterprise Kubernetes distribution developed and supported from within the GCC.

Regulatory context

The frameworks that shape where workloads run.

These are the Abu Dhabi and ADGM rules most relevant to where a workload runs. The federal frameworks on the UAE page apply as well.

Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security Standard (ADHICS) Department of Health – Abu Dhabi: Applies to every healthcare entity licensed by the Department of Health. It sets the information and cyber security controls against which those entities are assessed, and operates alongside the federal requirement that health data be stored and processed in the UAE.
ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021 (ADGM DPR) ADGM Office of Data Protection: Apply to entities in ADGM in place of the federal PDPL. They do not require data to be stored in the UAE, but permit transfers only to adequate jurisdictions or under safeguards such as ADGM's standard contractual clauses.
Federal Law No. 2 of 2019 on the Use of ICT in Health Fields UAE federal government: Requires health data relating to health services provided in the UAE to be stored and processed inside the country, except in cases set out by ministerial resolution. For a healthcare entity in Abu Dhabi it is the rule that decides where the platform can run.

This summary is provided as context and is not legal advice. Which frameworks apply to an organisation depends on its sector, its licences and the data it holds, and should be confirmed with its regulator and its own counsel. Mamluk does not claim certification against any framework listed here.

Questions

Common questions from organisations in Abu Dhabi.

Do you work on site in Abu Dhabi?: Yes. Our engineers work at customer sites across Abu Dhabi and remotely from Dubai, and most engagements combine the two. Every engagement is contracted with Mamluk LLC-FZ, which is registered in Meydan Free Zone, Dubai.
Can the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine run inside Abu Dhabi?: Yes. BKE is installed on the customer's own servers, in the customer's own data centre, so the cluster and the data it holds stay wherever that hardware is. The requirements for each node are published in full.
How is BKE priced?: BKE is licensed at a flat annual fee per cluster, whatever the number of nodes, cores or memory. The figure and a worked example are on the BKE pricing page, and a 14-day trial can be started from the Mamluk console without a sales call.
We are a healthcare provider licensed by the Department of Health. Can we use you?: Yes. Health data must be stored and processed in the UAE, and a platform on your own servers keeps it there. We design and operate the platform; your ADHICS assessment remains your own, and we provide the evidence about the platform that the assessment requires.