Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to launch datacentre infrastructure in Africa. The subsidiary company confirmed plans to open three availability zones in Cape Town in H1 2020. AWS stops companies requiring onsite servers by offering flexible cloud computing capabilities. In a blog post, the company said it will be using AWS-based solutions for its data centers and that it has already signed up more than 100 customers from across Africa who are looking forward to While it can help African customers already, having local infrastructure increases data-transfer speeds and reduces latency. As well as highlighting its eagerness to work closer with African companies, Amazon noted its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was mostly developed in Cape Town.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to launch datacentre infrastructure in Africa. The subsidiary company confirmed plans to open three availability zones in Cape Town in H1 2020. AWS stops companies requiring onsite servers by offering flexible cloud computing capabilities. It accounts for over 10% of Amazon’s overall revenue and currently has around 19 active centres worldwide. While it can help African customers already, having local infrastructure increases data-transfer speeds and reduces latency. As well as highlighting its eagerness to work closer with African companies, Amazon noted its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was mostly developed in Cape Town.