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UAE Data Residency and AI Inference Now Live

8, Jul 2026

Telnyx infrastructure is live in the United Arab Emirates. Customers can now choose UAE as their data storage region and run AI inference on Telnyx-owned GPUs in Dubai.

Data storage in the UAE

Mission Control Portal now includes United Arab Emirates as a data storage region, joining USA (default), Germany, and Australia. Selecting UAE means the following data sits at rest in local infrastructure:

  • Call recordings
  • Transcripts
  • AI data (assistant conversations, context, logs)
  • Usage logs (CDRs, MDRs, and related telemetry)

AI inference in Dubai

Dubai is also a live inference region (me-central-1). LLM requests from the Middle East process on Telnyx-owned GPU infrastructure in Dubai instead of routing through US or European data centers. Kimi K2.6 is the first model available in the region, accessible through the same OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API.

Data that stays in the Middle East

In-region processing. Inference runs on GPUs physically located in Dubai. Prompts and responses do not transit to US or EU for compute. For customers in regulated sectors like banking, healthcare, and insurance, that means one answer when compliance teams ask where AI workloads process.

Low latency. Co-locating inference with regional infrastructure keeps round-trip latency low for MENA users. Customers no longer absorb 200-400ms of cross-border routing overhead on every inference call.

Getting started

Set UAE as your data storage region

  1. Log in to the Mission Control Portal
  2. Go to Account Settings, then Profile
  3. Choose United Arab Emirates under Data Storage Location
  4. Save

Run inference in Dubai

  1. Generate an API key in the Mission Control Portal
  2. Call the Chat Completions API with your Telnyx API key
  3. Use model moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 with region me-central-1
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_TELNYX_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.telnyx.com/v2/ai/inference"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello from Dubai!"}
    ]
)

For questions about these features, contact support through the Mission Control Portal. To explore how Telnyx can support your UAE expansion, reach out to our sales team.