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The biggest in the world Enterprise cloud computing hyperscaler Amazon Web Service (AWS) has launched its Cape Town data center, the first on the continent.
The AWS Africa (Cape Town) region brings Amazon.com’s owned cloud giant “Availability Zones” to 73 worldwide in 23 geographic regions and comes a year after its closest rival, Microsoft launched two Azure data centers in South Africa, one in Johannesburg and the other in Cape Town.
“Starting today, developers, startups, and businesses, as well as government, educational, and nonprofit organizations, can run their applications and serve end users in Africa with even lower latency and take advantage of technologies from AWS to drive innovation, “AWS said in a sentence.
Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant ultra low latency networks
The Cape Town region has three availability zones. These zones each comprise one or more data centers and are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event affecting business continuity, but close enough to provide low latency for high availability applications.
Each availability zone has separate power, cooling and physical security and is connected through redundant ultra low latency networks, AWS said.
Like all AWS infrastructure regions around the world, Availability Zones in the Cape Town region are equipped with backup power to ensure continuous and reliable power availability to maintain operations during power failures and loss load.
Data residence
With the new region, customers with data residency requirements and those seeking to comply with the Personal Information Protection Act can now store their content in South Africa with the assurance that they retain full ownership of their data and that they do not they will move unless they choose to move it, ”AWS said.
Amazon first established its presence in Cape Town with a development center in 2004 to develop network-centric technologies, customer support software, and the technology behind Amazon EC2. In 2015, Amazon expanded its presence in the country, opening an AWS office in Johannesburg. In 2017, the Amazon Global Network expanded to Africa through AWS Direct Connect, and in 2018, Amazon established its first infrastructure on the African continent, launching Amazon CloudFront locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town, followed in 2020 by a edge location in Nairobi.
Last March, According to research by International Data Corp at the time, spending on public cloud services in South Africa will almost triple in five years from R4.3 billion in 2017 to R11.5 billion in 2022, and the adoption of services in the Cloud will generate 112,000 new net jobs in South Africa by the end of 2022. – © 2020 NewsCentral Media
