Amazon Web Services launches Data Center in the Cape Town region.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially introduced its Data Centre in Cape Town region

This will help businesses and government organizations to develop cloud applications and store their data locally, at the same time reaching end-users across Africa with a lower latency.

VP of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support at AWS, Peter DeSantis said;

“The cloud is positively transforming lives and businesses across Africa and we are honored to be a part of that transformation. We have a long history in South Africa and have been working to support the growth of the local technology community for over 15 years. In that time, builders, developers, entrepreneurs, and organizations have asked us to bring an AWS Region to Africa and today we are answering these requests by opening the Cape Town Region. We look forward to seeing the creativity and innovation that will result from African organizations building in the cloud.”

The data center in Cape Town has three Availability Zones. These Regions are made up of Availability Zones, with each having one or more data centers located in separate and distinct geographic locations.

Availability zones are fitted with back up power so that in times of electrical failures or power outages in the country there would be available power.

These centers are operated to reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications.

The AWS Cloud enables businesses to spin up hundreds or thousands of servers instantaneously and it delivers results faster.

The AWS cloud computing platform gives users the flexibility to launch your application no matter your use case or industry.

AWAy customers who are focused on high availability can develop applications to run in multiple Availability zones for a greater impact.

In addition to this current launch, AWS is now in 23 geographic region in 73 Availability Zones around the world.

The AWS Africa Cape Town data center adds to Amazon’s ongoing investment in South Africa. In 2004, Amazon first established the Development Centre.

In 2018 also, Amazon established its first infrastructure on the African

continent, launching Amazon CloudFront locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, followed in 2020 by an edge location in Nairobi, Kenya.