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Amazon Web Services (AWS) went live with its Cape Town region on April 22, 2020.
Starting this morning, AWS administrators could enable the Cape Town region for their account through the AWS portal.
The region is called “Africa (Cape Town)” with the label “af-south-1”.
AWS regions consist of a group of data centers called Availability Zones. These zones offer cloud computing services for the region and nearby edge networks, and are connected to redundant ultra low latency networks.
The availability of an Amazon region of Cape Town would be great news for South African developers as they could use cloud storage and IT services with much lower latency than if they were connected to a region in Europe or the United States.
AWS currently maintains regions in North America, South America, Europe, China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.
Cape Town Amazon Region
In late 2018, Amazon announced that it would open an infrastructure region in South Africa, consisting of three availability zones, based in Cape Town.
Since then, the company started expanding its local presence rapidly, with the AWS South Africa division recruiting more than 100 new employees in July 2019.
Amazon’s AWS Africa page It still claims that the Cape Town region will arrive soon, with no official launch date announced.
“We will open an AWS region in South Africa in the first half of 2020,” said Amazon. “The new AWS Africa region (Cape Town) will consist of three availability zones.”
“The addition of the AWS Africa region will allow organizations to provide lower latency to end users in sub-Saharan Africa and will allow more African organizations to take advantage of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile services and more to drive innovation. “
Amazon confirms launch
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that the Cape Town region was made available on its platform today.
“Starting today, developers, startups, and businesses, as well as government, educational, and non-profit 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. ” said.
Customers and partners can start using the platform by visiting the AWS Cape Town Region Homepage.
“We have been asked by builders, developers, entrepreneurs and organizations to bring an AWS region to Africa and today we are responding to these requests by opening up the Cape Town region,” said Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of global infrastructure and customer support for Amazon Web Services.
“We look forward to seeing the creativity and innovation that will result from building African cloud organizations.”
AWS said its infrastructure regions meet the highest levels of data security, compliance and protection.
With the new region, customers with data residency requirements and those seeking to comply with the Personal Information Protection Act (POPIA) can now store their content in South Africa with the assurance that they retain full ownership of their data. and they will. don’t move unless you decide to move it, “the company said.
AWS Cape Town Images
Below are screenshots showing the new region of Africa (Cape Town) live on the AWS platform.
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